The song I most admire lyrically is "Higher Wall"
Such clever lyrics like a story, the story immigrants desiring to, and trying to get into the U.K. from their viewpoint. While at the same time, we are shown to want to keep, not share the proportional riches we have accumulated for ourselves. The most powerful line in the song " We are your bastard children, all coming home" At first I thought JS was perhaps making a reference to what must be in fact thousands of people across the former British Empire who are indeed illegitimate descendants of British Soldiers or Officials. The more I have listened to it in relation to the rest of the song I think it is more about Commercialism. In Third World Countries we traded and shown from the Western World the day to day luxuries we take for granted, things that most people in the Third Would could never expect to own, or experience very rarely. Mobile phones, cars, computers, light and heating, fast food chains, etc, all of which such people may see in their cities, but perhaps not have themselves. Hence the desire to go to the source of origin, where the wealth started from in the West, acquire such things for themselves, and live the lives they imagine the Tourists they have seen from the West in their country have. That"s my take on it. Either way, a very powerful well written song.
Love the way "Die trying" kind of carries on with the story and is very topical at this time. JS has shown much empathy with the situation as a whole. Would not be surprised if in the future another song from JS follows, perhaps picking up the situation of those who have made it to the West, their promised land, only to face other problems such as racism or fitting in to a new society, something along the lines of the lyrics to BD3.
