Behind The Sea lyrics

Okay, so i've been listening to this song... Trying to figure it out. I think--only think, so if you disagree, don't get on my case--that it has something to do with a war--and i'm not sure which one(it could be a world war or anything. )
think about it. "a daydream spills from my corked head, breaks free of my wooden neck... " maybe this is referring to a hope for peace, and the fact that it's been drilled into our minds that this is still a battle for our well being and we as the u. S. Come before all else--last part the wooden neck thing. "the men all played along to marching drums, and boy did they have fun, behind the sea. " maybe this means that--thinking in the sense that marching drums symbolizes soldiers--they are on another continent--behind the sea or on the other side of it. "we're all too small to talk to god... We're all too smart to talk to god. " possibly saying that putting our faith in a higher power didn't do any good in ending war. As i continue writing this i'm thinking it's a world war. "toast the fine folk casting silver crumbs to us from the dock. " people throwing confetti--or just expressing relief and joy--at the port where the soldiers get off a ship coming back from war. "jinxed things ringing as they leak through tiny cracks in the boardwalk. "(maybe my imaginations gone away with me, but... ) ringing means the memory of gunshots while they're walking into the welcoming arms of their families. "scarecrows now it's time to hatch sprouting suns and ageless daughters. " if it were wwii then i'd say it means that the horrors are going behind us and now (maybe) woman are developing rights and becoming more a part of society--"ageless. "
"matching legs are marching clocks. " men marching in rhythm, all at the same exact time--military, in other words.

I may or may not be wrong, but this was how i heard it.