Edited sentence: A big man with a plan has got a storm a-coming, monster coming.From Atlantis to interzone.From gravity's rainbow, the axis here is still unknown.Gold is selling well but hurry nightly ocean rising fast.Good thieves of burning cars encirle poisened rivers minds and hearts.His ears pricked with the knife hears that the east are coming, west are coming.Horses want to dance but find their wings are damaged, water damaged.I think in this song, the Klaxons could be saying that if global warming and rising sea levels doesn’t kill us, war between China and the US will.Possible meaning/interpataion.The children's faces glow.The title is an analogy for the demise of the mythical city as its punishment for greed.The wasteland guides them, wasteland guides them.There is currently an endless pursuit of money and power by governments, corporations, and induviduals, and this song talks about that and how its leading to our destruction,.We're fragments of fiction.You start on the edge and you end on your own.Your dead man half alive who hangs from helping numbers one to five