I think this song might be about the US Presidential election. Gomez said a lot of stuff when the album came out about how they felt that the election was a terrible thing because the Republicans basically stole it in Florida, with GW's brother being governor and the allegations of intimidation etc...
Anyway, the lyrics:
"we're all to blame" - everyone is responsible for the political situation, the people let politicians get away with their behaviour
"it's been carefully planned by the ones you won't see" - the election rigging has been planned in the political backrooms but the republicans
"send out the monkeys...." - a lot of important decision makers in the controversy after the election were Republican stooges, e.g. Jeb Bush, or the Florida Electoral commissioner who also happened to be head of the 'George Bush for President' association. So they are the monkeys, who come out and wreck up the 'party' - the election.
"we wait for our turn/we'll be waiting all of the night/we'll be waiting all of our lives" - people who care about progressive politics will be waiting a long time for success because the corrupt political process destroys the possibility of genuine fairness and progress in politics.
I think this song might be about the US Presidential election. Gomez said a lot of stuff when the album came out about how they felt that the election was a terrible thing because the Republicans basically stole it in Florida, with GW's brother being governor and the allegations of intimidation etc...
Anyway, the lyrics:
"we're all to blame" - everyone is responsible for the political situation, the people let politicians get away with their behaviour
"it's been carefully planned by the ones you won't see" - the election rigging has been planned in the political backrooms but the republicans
"send out the monkeys...." - a lot of important decision makers in the controversy after the election were Republican stooges, e.g. Jeb Bush, or the Florida Electoral commissioner who also happened to be head of the 'George Bush for President' association. So they are the monkeys, who come out and wreck up the 'party' - the election.
"we wait for our turn/we'll be waiting all of the night/we'll be waiting all of our lives" - people who care about progressive politics will be waiting a long time for success because the corrupt political process destroys the possibility of genuine fairness and progress in politics.