[Intro]
Like salt on a slug
Our grave we dug
[Verse 1]
The salt of the earth
Given an Earth birth
Turns on mother
Tries to smother
[Chorus]
Got a salty attitude
(So mean and rude)
A salty attitude
(Obscene and crude)
[Bridge]
When you reign
We’re poor
Violent rain
(No, no more)
[Verse 2]
No sanity left in humanity
All human, no anity
Where did the love go
Does anybody know?
(Where did the love go)
[Chorus]
Got a salty attitude
(So mean and rude)
A salty attitude
(Obscene and crude)
[Bridge]
When you reign
We’re poor
Violent rain
(No, no more)
[Chorus]
Got a salty attitude
(So mean and rude)
A salty attitude
(Obscene and crude)
Violent rain
(No, no more)
[Outro]
When you reign
We’re poor
Violent rain
(No, no more)
ABOUT THE SONG
The saying about salt and slugs typically goes, “Like salt on a slug.” This phrase is used to describe something that is harmful or causes a strong reaction, as salt dehydrates slugs, causing them to shrivel up and die. It’s often used metaphorically to refer to situations where something has a quick and damaging effect. In this case, salt represents humanity, and the slug is the Earth.
The Morton Salt slogan, “When it rains, it pours,” highlighted their product’s ability to prevent clumping in humid conditions. Their containers kept the salt dry, ensuring that it would still pour even when it rained.
HUMAN INDUCED CLIMATE CHANGE
In October of 2023 Sidd said, “Now I am thinking the violent rain will be a bigger problem before we die. The rain intensity is increasing faster today than ever known. Multiple factors figure into the physics of violent rain. The Momentum of Rain is p = mv (p = momentum, m = mass, v = velocity.) Part of the increasing momentum is transferred to the sides and upward increasing wind turbulence, as well as updrafts. Most of the momentum is transferred upon impact. You may notice the rain bouncing higher off the streets and sidewalks. As rain becomes more massive, it will have greater momentum when it hits the ground causing more damage. The momentum of rain and the turbulence of wind are part of a larger equation that includes not only the mass and velocity of precipitation but also the density. The combination of these variables results in an increased intensity of the flow dynamics. Increased updrafts will result in an increase in the frequency of hail. When violent rain becomes denser and turns into hail, it can be deadly. Ground without groundcover will be hit harder causing more damage. The groundcover will also be hit harder causing more damage. Concrete, asphalt, solar panels, roofs, and plants will sustain more damage. Hail may also impact your skull. Infants and young children are at highest risk. Several infants have been killed by hail in the past year.
Wind and water flow forces scale as the square of velocity, so as flow speeds increase (say due to more intense heating or heavier rain) the damage scales as the square of the velocity. Look at drag physics and you will see that force is proportional to density times square of velocity (v^2). So a twenty mile an hour wind exerts four times as much force as a ten mile an hour wind. And a forty mile an hour wind exerts sixteen times as much force as a ten mile an hour wind. A wind of fifty miles an hour exerts twenty five times and a wind of sixty miles an hour exerts thirty six times as much force as one of ten miles an hour. Then you have the density term. Water is about eight hundred times denser than air, So the force exerted by a ten mile an hour flow of water is eight hundred times that of a ten mile an hour wind. So as flow velocities go up due to climate change, force and damage scale as square of the velocities. What is not clear is how much these velocities increase with climate change. But in a sense we are seeing this already as, for example, flood and sewage systems succumb and hillsides fall down, and so on.
— from The Reign of Violent Rain / Brouse and Mukherjee (2023)
