Featured in the Twilight movie. This song has many interpretations due to the seemingly nonsensical lyrics and the fact that Samuel Beam hasn’t addressed the inspiration or the meaning of the lyrics.
One interpretation of this song would be a story of a man in a race against time to save his love from suicide due to his affair.
It could be about a boy’s race against time to find his lost loved one who happened to be a troubled, broken girl he thought he could save from her self destructive path but the task ended up being to big.
It could literally be about fat cats and rats. This song could be about anything.