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.
So now you tell me you are living in a country
Where joys and freedom they can not be tried
But alone in your mind there are so many rooms
That you never seem to find...
There is a room where your toolbox is waiting
But you just never go there when you are awake
When most of the time whatever that you look for
You could of just sit down and make
So do "the right thing". just do "the right thing"
How can you do it if you are awake?!
Instead I scratch my forehead like Aladdin his lamp...
'Cus even in Madagascar
We'll find some shack below radar
Put two turntables and a film projector in that room
And punk rock 'n' roll most faithfully...
It will occure-cure-cure! ... cure cure cure!
Instead you run to your llittle birdfeeder
And stick your beak in the seeds your master laid
Where did they came from? Who put them in there?
Oh you will never know their name!
But there is a room where bustle and merry
And big ceremony could be going on,
Where your true talents along with birthrights
Could be dancing can-can
'Cus even in Madagascar... and even in Antarctica!
Even in Azerbaijan!
Put two turntables and a film projector in that room
And punk rock 'n' roll most faithfully...
It will occure-cure-cure! ...cure! cure! cure!
...and sewing machine too!
Where joys and freedom they can not be tried
But alone in your mind there are so many rooms
That you never seem to find...
There is a room where your toolbox is waiting
But you just never go there when you are awake
When most of the time whatever that you look for
You could of just sit down and make
So do "the right thing". just do "the right thing"
How can you do it if you are awake?!
Instead I scratch my forehead like Aladdin his lamp...
'Cus even in Madagascar
We'll find some shack below radar
Put two turntables and a film projector in that room
And punk rock 'n' roll most faithfully...
It will occure-cure-cure! ... cure cure cure!
Instead you run to your llittle birdfeeder
And stick your beak in the seeds your master laid
Where did they came from? Who put them in there?
Oh you will never know their name!
But there is a room where bustle and merry
And big ceremony could be going on,
Where your true talents along with birthrights
Could be dancing can-can
'Cus even in Madagascar... and even in Antarctica!
Even in Azerbaijan!
Put two turntables and a film projector in that room
And punk rock 'n' roll most faithfully...
It will occure-cure-cure! ...cure! cure! cure!
...and sewing machine too!
Lyrics submitted by 41firstletters
Madagascar-Roumania (Tu Jésty Fáta) Lyrics as written by Eugene Hutz Eliot Ferguson
Lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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"Tu esti fata care n-are, n-are, n-are suflet n-are Care n-are suflet, n-are Haide fata tu afara, sa te vada toti tiganii Haide fata tu afara
[R] Ai Doamne, ce-i cu firea, nu-ti gasesc ce e cu mine, Ai, oi, Doamne ce-i cu firea
Tu esti fata foarte buna, care cu mine se joaca Care cu mine nu se joaca Haide fata tu afara sa te vada toti tiganii, Haide fata tu afara"
"Tu esti fata care n-are, n-are, n-are suflet n-are Care n-are suflet, n-are Haide fata tu afara, sa te vada toti tiganii Haide fata tu afara
[R] Ai Doamne, ce-i cu firea, nu-ti gasesc ce e cu mine, Ai, oi, Doamne ce-i cu firea
Tu esti fata foarte buna, care cu mine se joaca Care cu mine nu se joaca Haide fata tu afara sa te vada toti tiganii, Haide fata tu afara"
"Tu esti fata care n-are, n-are, n-are suflet n-are Care n-are suflet, n-are Haide fata tu afara, sa te vada toti tiganii Haide fata tu afara
[R] Ai Doamne, ce-i cu firea, nu-ti gasesc ce e cu mine, Ai, oi, Doamne ce-i cu firea
Tu esti fata foarte buna, care cu mine se joaca Care cu mine nu se joaca Haide fata tu afara sa te vada toti tiganii, Haide fata tu afara"
Tu esti fata care n-are, n-are, n-are suflet n-are, care n-are suflet n-are Haide fata tu afara sa te vada toti tiganii Haide fata tu afara
Hai Doamne ce-i cu fire nu-ti gasesc ce-i cu mine, hai off Doamne ce-i cu fire
Tu esti fata fata buna care cu mine se joaca care cu mine nu se joaca Haide fata tu afara sa te vada toti tiganii Haide fata tu afara
"i might be over analysing this though"
You definitely are. And you also sound like a prat.