A man awakes from a nightmare. His wife accuses him of "being with someone" during the dream but he denies this. He begs her not to make him tell her what the dream is but she forces him. In this dream, he was peering through the picture window of his grandmother's home into her dining room. Both the narrator's and his wife's families were present. For the narrator, this at first seems heartwarming and pleasant, until he "zooms in" and realized what is going on. In this dream, his wife is pregnant (it is unknown if this is also true in real life) and is apparently restrained or otherwise unable to defend herself while lying on the dining room table. The wife's father is holding the husband's grandmother's heirloom antler-handled carving knife, "for cutting the baby out". The implied violence is fleshed out in the line "Catfish were wriggling in blood and gore in the kitchen sink!"... At the song's conclusion the husband tells his wife not to take this dream as some "grim augury" of what is to come in the future, which dubiously implies that she is, in fact, pregnant.
A man awakes from a nightmare. His wife accuses him of "being with someone" during the dream but he denies this. He begs her not to make him tell her what the dream is but she forces him. In this dream, he was peering through the picture window of his grandmother's home into her dining room. Both the narrator's and his wife's families were present. For the narrator, this at first seems heartwarming and pleasant, until he "zooms in" and realized what is going on. In this dream, his wife is pregnant (it is unknown if this is also true in real life) and is apparently restrained or otherwise unable to defend herself while lying on the dining room table. The wife's father is holding the husband's grandmother's heirloom antler-handled carving knife, "for cutting the baby out". The implied violence is fleshed out in the line "Catfish were wriggling in blood and gore in the kitchen sink!"... At the song's conclusion the husband tells his wife not to take this dream as some "grim augury" of what is to come in the future, which dubiously implies that she is, in fact, pregnant.