I'm Going to Do My Best, but in the End, Understand One Thing

"Once you drink from the ocean, you can't control it. You know, just life itself," he says. "I'm going to sing all these songs at my house at some point with everybody around" The song is about people who are in charge of things and maybe taking a whole culture into a war. It's not going to be empathetic to the point where I pretend to agree with it or anything. If you're going to try to tear something down, what are you trying to build?