"...Belly up, all the drinks are on the Crown"

This one is obvious, but I figured I'd include it for the sake of those readers not up on their British Common Law terminology, or folks who just don't watch those thrilling Court Drama's on the CBC.

The "Crown" referenced in this lyric is of course the prosecution side of a legal equation in any provincial or federal legal proceeding. The song deals with someone who had a run in with the law, and didn't come out O.J.

The name derives from the fact that if you screw up in Canada, you're actually being tried and judged by the head of state... and I hear Liz is a real no-nonesense kinda girl, so stay outta trouble if ya know what's good for ya!

Also, "trickle down economics" was the popular term for the conservative economic theory sweeping the Western World at the time of conception for "Up To Here." The most famous expression of this theory, which claimed that wealth at the executive and elite levels would "trickle down" to workers and laymen, was embodied in the saying: "a rising tide lifts all boats." Now, it would take one helluva tide to lift one boat, let alone all, which is largely why the whole idea of trickle down economics was dismissed as "voodoo" by most (with the exception of Stephen Harper) in the 1990's.