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.
Madness! Madness!
This is pure madness that we're talking about
Pure madness all the time now
This is pure madness that we're talking about
And I can't believe they wanna do it again
We gonna have to get em up
They gonna have to get me off
And you win some you lose some
So take this as loss
And cause a mother fuck smiles
Don't mean that mother fuckers soft
I'm laughing all the while
While they come to hall you off
I got the powers got my powder
Cops is casing the scene
That's how it goes something in me steady chasing the green
It's strictly cash only basis, but you're digging in your chest
Let's fuck em out everybody where its mutual respect
Madness! Madness!
This is pure madness that we're talking about
Pure madness all the time now
This is pure madness that we're talking about
And I can't believe they wanna do it again
Skinhead rob fuck a bitch
No I never gave a shit
Good or bad present, past
No I never save a bitch
Suck I dick I need a down bitch one that ain't too flossy
One that's down to hold my work and bust the heat to get em' off me
She's the baddest, I mean baddest bitch that's up in the club
Same one that's in the parking lot reloading the snug
That's the one who get my love
And you can't call it what you want
Or if that bitch is down to ride
That's the bitch that I'ma flaunt
Madness! Madness!
This is pure madness that we're talking about
Pure madness all the time now
This is pure madness that we're talking about
And I can't believe they wanna do it again
I'm from the west coast, best coast
Pump in the trench coat
Nothing like columbine everybody gets smoked
Heard that I got smoked naw alls I gots smokes
Best Mary Jane right down to the rock coke
You're being jipped, so take em to the river
Had to drop a tall can, I was fucking up my liver
Yet still I deliver like the first of 15
And I still make you quiver like your first 16th
Madness! Madness!
This is pure madness that we're talking about
Pure madness all the time now
This is pure madness that we're talking about
And I can't believe they wanna do it again
This is pure madness that we're talking about
Pure madness all the time now
This is pure madness that we're talking about
And I can't believe they wanna do it again
We gonna have to get em up
They gonna have to get me off
And you win some you lose some
So take this as loss
And cause a mother fuck smiles
Don't mean that mother fuckers soft
I'm laughing all the while
While they come to hall you off
I got the powers got my powder
Cops is casing the scene
That's how it goes something in me steady chasing the green
It's strictly cash only basis, but you're digging in your chest
Let's fuck em out everybody where its mutual respect
Madness! Madness!
This is pure madness that we're talking about
Pure madness all the time now
This is pure madness that we're talking about
And I can't believe they wanna do it again
Skinhead rob fuck a bitch
No I never gave a shit
Good or bad present, past
No I never save a bitch
Suck I dick I need a down bitch one that ain't too flossy
One that's down to hold my work and bust the heat to get em' off me
She's the baddest, I mean baddest bitch that's up in the club
Same one that's in the parking lot reloading the snug
That's the one who get my love
And you can't call it what you want
Or if that bitch is down to ride
That's the bitch that I'ma flaunt
Madness! Madness!
This is pure madness that we're talking about
Pure madness all the time now
This is pure madness that we're talking about
And I can't believe they wanna do it again
I'm from the west coast, best coast
Pump in the trench coat
Nothing like columbine everybody gets smoked
Heard that I got smoked naw alls I gots smokes
Best Mary Jane right down to the rock coke
You're being jipped, so take em to the river
Had to drop a tall can, I was fucking up my liver
Yet still I deliver like the first of 15
And I still make you quiver like your first 16th
Madness! Madness!
This is pure madness that we're talking about
Pure madness all the time now
This is pure madness that we're talking about
And I can't believe they wanna do it again
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I always thought that the line was "the same one that's in the parking lot reloading the snub" as in snub-nosed revolver.