Haines explains: "I had just gotten back from Coachella, and I walked
into the studio and noticed on the bulletin board that Joules had
written 'spider vs bat,' i think he had been obsessively watching all
these National Geographic
animals-fighting-each-other-videos in his hotel room. For me, that phrase triggered an entire narrative that was about a
gladiator-style enormo-dome where everything turns in on itself, with every form of aggression on display for spectators: monster trucks ramming into each other, bull fighting, sweaty men wrestling. And then you have these animals completely disconnected from the
logic of their natural habitat, so you have a swan pecking the shit out
of an elephant and pigs biting the necks out of tigers, and bats
attacking spiders.
And then in the seats, the spectators are kicking the shit out of
each other too.
There's this completely blurred line between spectator and
participant, and we're all trapped in this fucked up Noah's Ark.
The images came to me all at once, and I wrote the lyrics on the
spot."
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