The 8th track of MGMT’s debut album, “Oracular Spectacular”. With many interpretations and comments by fans, the track is potentially about climate change and environmental destruction. There are three interpretations listed below.

“Why’d you cut holes in the face of the moon base?
Don’t you know about the temperature change In the cold black shadow?”
The two lines can be interpreted as “holes” in the ozone layer, with “temperature change” being the raising temperatures of the earth. The rest of a larger interpretation can be found on @TomJoadsLich ’s Reddit post,

Reddit user @Slight_Astronaut2384 theorized:
“Did MGMT know about the Silurian Hypothesis, before it was publicized, or at least, presented in a 2018 paper by Adam Frank, an Astro physicist at the University of Rochester, and Kevin Schmidt, director of the Goddard Institute of Space Studies?
“To catch a monster you make a movie
Set the tempo”
I’ve never watched Dr. Who, but I think a Silurian was a monster in that show.
And the [Silurian] hypothesis was a thought experiment that basically explains that around 350 million years ago, our planet had enough fossil fuels on earth to support a global industrial civilization like we have today. And if there was a civilization around 100 million years ago, or more, there would be absolutely no way of knowing. The only way to tell is through climate foot prints similar to the ones we’re leaving now.
So there very well could have been a whole advance civilization of a whole different species that already was wiped out the same way we’re going, and there would be no trace of it. Nothing at all in less than 100 million years. We like to think of ourselves above nature and evolution. But, who’s to say the beings who could have existed, and there’s absolutely no evidence to suggest they didn’t exist, weren’t thrown back into the stone age and evolved back into animals to adapt?”

Another Discord user has also theorized based on the ending bridge that the track is of an invasion of “space monsters” (moons, monsters), or a symbolic version of colonization. Quote @cheesecurdd,
“With following the album’s tribal theme, the chorus potentially symbolizes war.
“Even a bird would want a taste of dirt from abyssal dark
The prick of a feather could make a kingdom burn and the bloodshed start
The falling apart”
Along with the following:
“Made me a shadow in the shape of wonder the waves of black
If she’s going under, I can hold my breath ‘til the sky comes back
Or drown like a rat, rat, rat
He’s a rat“
The three lines above likely indicates survival or awaiting the end of the implied war, a.k.a. “waiting for the sky to come back” or dying.
“Are you mad at your walls or hoping that an
Unknown force can repair things for you?
Pardon all the time that you’ve thrown into your pale gray garden?
If your ship will never come, you gotta move along”
I would presume this means waiting for a way out (off the planet) that never comes. I think the [Reddit] posts about the climate change or that NASA hypothesis probably explains it better, because the album could either primarily be about nostalgia or its confirmed theme, tribe.”