TheUglylucy4's video: Dig

"Dig" was written by Pete Townshend and is the fourth track off of his 1989 release...The Iron Man: The Musical by Pete Townshend. The LP is an adaptation of Ted Hughes' story The Iron Man, produced and largely composed and performed by Pete Townshend of The Who. The three then-surviving members of The Who (Daltrey, Entwistle, and Townshend) performed as a group in two songs, "Dig" and "Fire". The Iron Man: A Children's Story in Five Nights is a 1968 science fiction novel by British Poet Laureate Ted Hughes, first published in the UK. Described by some as a modern fairy tale,[ it describes the unexpected arrival in England of a giant "metal man" of unknown origin who rains destruction on the countryside by attacking industrial farm equipment, before befriending a small boy and defending the world from a monster from outer space. The Iron Man arrives seemingly from nowhere. To survive, he feeds on local farm equipment. When the farm hands discover their destroyed tractors and diggers, a trap is set consisting of a covered pit on which a red lorry is set as bait. Hogarth, a local boy, lures the Iron Man to the trap. The plan succeeds, and the Iron Man is buried alive. The next spring, the Iron Man digs himself free of the pit. To keep him out of the way, the boy Hogarth takes charge and brings the Iron Man to a metal scrap-heap to feast. The Iron Man promises not to cause further trouble for the locals, as long as no one troubles him. That is the beginning of the story and procedes to a point where the Iron Man saves the world from disaster by defeating a dragon who had plans of devouring Earth. Understanding this story, one can now easily see what the lyrics in this song is all about.