Space Ghost Coast To Coast

Growing up in Texas, Glass Animals frontman Dave Bayley had a close friend who was a big part of his upbringing. They got into trouble together, watched cartoons together, played computer games, and listened to hip-hop together. When Bayley and his family moved to England at 13, they lost touch, but a few years later he was shocked to learn his childhood friend had been caught planing a school shooting. This song finds him grasping to comprehend why his pal did such an awful thing. Bayley imagines visiting him in prison: I said to you, "Why did you do it?" Touch the glass, I'll feel ya through it Against the wall with the bracelets on You look bizarre in the apricot He told Apple Music: "I couldn't understand it. It was the first time I really understood how much things can change, that people you love can do things that you won't understand. It was a breaking of innocence."

You think that you're Space Ghost You're wanted coast to coast The song title references the Adult Swim animated parody talk show Space Ghost Coast to Coast, where a re-imagined version of the 1960s Hanna-Barbera cartoon character Space Ghost interviews a range of different celebrities. Bayley tries to fathom why his friend might see a school shooting as an act of a superhero.

Gotta be all that coco, ayy? Playin' too much of that GTA Playin' too much of that Dr. Dre Doom, Quake, where'd you get the gun from, eh Bayley talks about how in the 2000s the media blamed violent video games and rap music for the type of violent atrocity his friend planned. He believes there were much bigger societal problems at play such as the easy availability of firearms.