Albatross Lyrics

Lyric discussion by traat 

Cover art for Albatross lyrics by Foals

There's quite a few metaphors used that you need to understand in order to get the meaning.

"Albatross" is a pretty common term for dead weight. The "broken lightbulbs above your head" likely mean ideas or plans that failed in some way. "ticking timebomb" and "seeing red" is probably the most obvious, it refers to some form of anger.

the "green eyed monster" is another pretty common metaphor, this one for envy.

The rest are less clear to me, but I think enough to get the gist of it. The song is about someone who is agonizing about how their life has gone and are afraid of wasting the rest of it, and in the process it is causing even more problems, though the exact nature of them is hard to decipher.