Frontman Justin Young told NME: "The song is quite self-explanatory: it's about being in, um, a bad mood. That one was inspired by me - I'm always in a bad mood. I'm a f---ing moody person. The song is a warning to anyone who crosses my path."
The video for the song was directed by D.A.R.Y.L., and shot on location in the US during the band's early 2013 headliner tour of the US.
Young had some different lyrics in mind for this song, he told NME: "It was always called 'Bad Mood,' but quite often when I write songs, I just write like the first words that come into my head rather than anything meaningful. And I remember 'Better to be ready if you rattle my cage' was 'I was at the bus stop combing my hair,' which I thought was like kind of cool, but everyone was really down on that ... they were like, 'That's really bad,' and I was like, 'No, it sounds like McCartney,' and everyone's like, 'No, it doesn't.' So then I changed it to make it a bit more angsty, I think."
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