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.
Good thieves of burning cars
Encircle poisoned rivers, minds and hearts
Horses want to dance
But find their wings are damaged, water damaged
Gold is selling out
So hurry, mighty ocean's rising fast
A big man with a plan
Has got a storm a coming, monster coming
From Atlantis to Interzone
You start on the edge and you end on your own
From Atlantis to Interzone
You start on the edge and you end on your own
We're fragments of fiction
Your dead man, half alive
Who hangs from helping numbers, one to five
His ears, pricked with the knife
Hears that the east are coming, west are coming
From gravity's rainbow
The axis here is still unknown
The children's faces glow
The wasteland guides them, wasteland guides them
From Atlantis to Interzone
You start on the edge and you end on your own
From Atlantis to Interzone
You start on the edge and you end on your own
From Atlantis to Interzone
You start on the edge and you end on your own
We're fragments of fiction
Encircle poisoned rivers, minds and hearts
Horses want to dance
But find their wings are damaged, water damaged
Gold is selling out
So hurry, mighty ocean's rising fast
A big man with a plan
Has got a storm a coming, monster coming
From Atlantis to Interzone
You start on the edge and you end on your own
From Atlantis to Interzone
You start on the edge and you end on your own
We're fragments of fiction
Your dead man, half alive
Who hangs from helping numbers, one to five
His ears, pricked with the knife
Hears that the east are coming, west are coming
From gravity's rainbow
The axis here is still unknown
The children's faces glow
The wasteland guides them, wasteland guides them
From Atlantis to Interzone
You start on the edge and you end on your own
From Atlantis to Interzone
You start on the edge and you end on your own
From Atlantis to Interzone
You start on the edge and you end on your own
We're fragments of fiction
Lyrics submitted by Miss_Misery
Atlantis to Interzone Lyrics as written by Jamie Oliver Jack Reynolds James Nicholas Righton
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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Yeah! Klaxons are the fucking best band i've heard in a LONG time.
quality tune. wooo-bombombom!
From gravity (??), the axis here is still unknown
== from gravity's rainbow - maybe? lol.
haha, yeah. anyone seen the video for this ? ledgend.
Haha silly me, it was quite obvious that was gravity's rainbow. Oh well, I've changed it now.
Anyway this song is amazing. Yeah.
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