Great reviews, guys! However Big Ears I must take issue with your contention that the "eighties were a time of paucity and frustration in prog rock". Have you forgotten Marillion? Pallas? IQ? There were some excellent prog bands coming through at the start of the 80s, in fact these bands more or less drove the neo-prog movement!
As for the "FU" bit in "The water": well I don't know how you interpreted the lyric, but I see it as the water (natural resources) having been used by Man for his own purposes and being polluted, diverted, let dry up etc, giving vent to its anger and telling mankind what it thinks about us.
I could be wrong though...
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