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The Mars Volta – The Malkin Jewel Lyrics 12 years ago
It is obviously about some sort of prison or concentration camp, like the german nazi camps or north korean labour camps. See:

When all the traps in the cellar go clickety click
You know I’m gonna set them for you
* It means the clickety click when the rats step onto them.

And all the rats in the cellar full of vermin and steps
You know I’m gonna set them for you

Yeah, for you
*Means that they eat rats, since there is limited or no food availability for prisoners to eat or get proteins. In Escape from camp 14, it is explained how people ate crude rats to get proteins and ironically avoid a type of bacteria that kills from lack of proteins in the body as the only food provided was a piece or two of corn kernels and a salted cabbage soup.

This is all confirmed with the following verse:

She tosses and turns
And wakes all the children in bed
Yawning with hunger
They take turns of nourishment

Concluding with:

And she looks at me in the great outdoors
And you know what she tells me?

Somebody help me
Is there anybody out there that can set me free?

Very interesting sad and interesting lyrics, cedric/omar you are a brilliant.

Read Escape from camp 14 from Blaine Harden.

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