Knives out is about people using each other to get what they want, and cannibalizing on people who are down.
"Knives out, cook him up, squash his head, put him in the pot"
"He's bloated and frozen still there's no point in letting him go to waste."
Like the business owner who discovers that another local business has a problem with criminal activity because the owner doesn't serve cops and claims to the public "our business is crime-free! cops are always welcome here!".
"Don't look down. Shove it in your mouth"
On the same theme of social cannibalism, it also mentions people who know they must feed on the suffering of others, but do not like to think about it that way, such as the big business who poaches all of a smaller businesses clients just to stay afloat, destroying the small business in the process.
"Look into my eyes. I'm not coming back."
This song also touches on people abandoning others (presumably friends and families).
I really like this description of the song. I think it fits, but the more I study this song, the more I tend to disagree that it was the intent.
I really like this description of the song. I think it fits, but the more I study this song, the more I tend to disagree that it was the intent.
I feel like the "I" is the mother and the person she is talking to is her child. "He" may be the father. It seems to be a family struggling to survive and the mother is cutting her child loose into the world. The child still has spirit, but the mother must be harsh to teach her child that the world is cold and feelings will only keep him/her from surviving. The imagery is of her telling the child to learn to kill the mouse without remorse and not to "feel" for it so that the child can survive and eat it. It's a dark song, and it's hard to know whether the narrator believes why they preach or feels that it is just the best lesson for the child to learn. Perhaps the father scorned the mother and child and left them to fend in British style poverty and her scorned heart to teaching the lessons so to speak.
Knives out is about people using each other to get what they want, and cannibalizing on people who are down.
"Knives out, cook him up, squash his head, put him in the pot" "He's bloated and frozen still there's no point in letting him go to waste."
Like the business owner who discovers that another local business has a problem with criminal activity because the owner doesn't serve cops and claims to the public "our business is crime-free! cops are always welcome here!".
"Don't look down. Shove it in your mouth"
On the same theme of social cannibalism, it also mentions people who know they must feed on the suffering of others, but do not like to think about it that way, such as the big business who poaches all of a smaller businesses clients just to stay afloat, destroying the small business in the process.
"Look into my eyes. I'm not coming back."
This song also touches on people abandoning others (presumably friends and families).
I really like this description of the song. I think it fits, but the more I study this song, the more I tend to disagree that it was the intent.
I really like this description of the song. I think it fits, but the more I study this song, the more I tend to disagree that it was the intent.
I feel like the "I" is the mother and the person she is talking to is her child. "He" may be the father. It seems to be a family struggling to survive and the mother is cutting her child loose into the world. The child still has spirit, but the mother must be harsh to teach her child that the world is cold and feelings will only keep him/her from surviving. The imagery is of her telling the child to learn to kill the mouse without remorse and not to "feel" for it so that the child can survive and eat it. It's a dark song, and it's hard to know whether the narrator believes why they preach or feels that it is just the best lesson for the child to learn. Perhaps the father scorned the mother and child and left them to fend in British style poverty and her scorned heart to teaching the lessons so to speak.