Album: released as a single (2023)
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  • "Agua" is Spanish for water, but you knew that. The song recalls the good times the band had surfing together in the '90s when they would sometimes spot dolphins in the Pacific Ocean. Climate change has made these dolphin encounters unlikely, a lament expressed in the song.

    "The ocean doesn't look right, doesn't feel right, doesn't surf right," Porno For Pyros frontman Perry Farrell explained. "You go and swim in it, and you get the creeps. The sunsets are different. We are really, really screwing it up. We have to do something about it. I wanted to bring attention to it through the best megaphone that I know, which is music."
  • The group collaborated with the Surfrider Foundation to tie this song in with efforts to clean up the ocean. "We're so saddened about what's happened to the water, especially this last decade," Farrell said. We feel that we've got to unify now we've got to end the pollution that's being leaked in to the ocean. We have to wake up we have to start messaging immediately. Remember, we're guardians.
  • "Agua" was the first Porno For Pyros song released since 1997, when they contributed "Hard Charger" to the Private Parts soundtrack. The band wrote it when they were preparing for a reunion tour in 2023 that ended up getting pushed into 2024 and billed as a farewell tour.
  • According to Pyros guitarist Peter DiStefano, they wrote "Agua" when they were in Western Samoa on a surf trip that went a lot better than one they took to Tahiti. On that trip, Perry Farrell nearly drowned, inspiring their 1996 song "Tahitian Moon."

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