I think much like another song “Anti-Matter” (that's also on the same album as this song), this one is also is inspired by a horrifying van crash the band experienced on Nov 3, 2022. This, much like the other track, sounds like it's an extension what they shared while huddled in the wreckage, as they helped frontman Garrett Russell stem the bleeding from his head wound while he was under the temporary effects of a concussion. The track speaks of where the mind goes at the most desperate & desolate of times, when it just about slips away to all but disconnect itself, and the aftermath.
A slaves a girl who slaves her days away
In arabesques and minarets
Tablecloths and serviettes
She's singing 'this is what you get'
First you put the tongue in then you put the boot in
Yeah yeah oh yeah
First you put the tongue in then you put the boot in
Yeah yeah oh yeah
The mob goes fifteen ways
I dunno which way to go
The mob goes fifteen ways
And my head (my poor head)
Feels like a smashed window
George is twenty-four, he's easily bored
All his life he's seen nothing but closed doors
(Not any more)
First you put the tongue in then you put the boot in
Yeah yeah oh yeah
First you put the tongue in then you put the boot in
Yeah yeah oh yeah
And he mob goes fifteen ways
I dunno which way to go
The mob goes fifteen ways
And my head, my poor head
Feels like a smashed window
In arabesques and minarets
Tablecloths and serviettes
She's singing 'this is what you get'
First you put the tongue in then you put the boot in
Yeah yeah oh yeah
First you put the tongue in then you put the boot in
Yeah yeah oh yeah
The mob goes fifteen ways
I dunno which way to go
The mob goes fifteen ways
And my head (my poor head)
Feels like a smashed window
George is twenty-four, he's easily bored
All his life he's seen nothing but closed doors
(Not any more)
First you put the tongue in then you put the boot in
Yeah yeah oh yeah
First you put the tongue in then you put the boot in
Yeah yeah oh yeah
And he mob goes fifteen ways
I dunno which way to go
The mob goes fifteen ways
And my head, my poor head
Feels like a smashed window
Lyrics submitted by iloveweezer
Mayday Lyrics as written by Peter Doherty Carl Barat
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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