I feel the song is about a guy who feels he is to blame for the end of a relationship due to his inferiority complex, his negative self-talk, and his passive-aggressive behavior. Because these types of feelings and behaviors are common for him, he feels that he will never overcome them and be a confident man worthy of a healthy, wholesome love. This particular relationship's end is especially painful because the girl had opened up her heart to him thinking he was a bigger man than he feels that he is. But there is hope, in that if he learns to merely love another person in a wholehearted nurturing way, and focus less on his own negative feelings, then in the future he might be able to avoid a life of loneliness and self-defeat.
"Little lion man" describes his inferiority complex and his passive aggressiveness.
"Rate yourself and rape/rake/break yourself" describes his negative self-talk and how he feels like he comes up short when compared to others.
"Tremble for yourself, my man you know that you have seen this all before tremble little lion man you'll never settle any of your score" describes his fear that he will never overcome his defeatist behavior and be a confident man.
"Your grace is wasted in your face your boldness stands alone among the wreck" describes his self-defeating passive-aggressive behavior caused by his inferiority complex.
"Learn from your mother or spend your days biting your own neck" describes how there is hope, that if he learns to merely love another person in a wholehearted nurturing way, and focus less on his own negative feelings, then in the future he might be able to avoid a life of loneliness and self-defeat.
I feel the song is about a guy who feels he is to blame for the end of a relationship due to his inferiority complex, his negative self-talk, and his passive-aggressive behavior. Because these types of feelings and behaviors are common for him, he feels that he will never overcome them and be a confident man worthy of a healthy, wholesome love. This particular relationship's end is especially painful because the girl had opened up her heart to him thinking he was a bigger man than he feels that he is. But there is hope, in that if he learns to merely love another person in a wholehearted nurturing way, and focus less on his own negative feelings, then in the future he might be able to avoid a life of loneliness and self-defeat.
"Little lion man" describes his inferiority complex and his passive aggressiveness. "Rate yourself and rape/rake/break yourself" describes his negative self-talk and how he feels like he comes up short when compared to others. "Tremble for yourself, my man you know that you have seen this all before tremble little lion man you'll never settle any of your score" describes his fear that he will never overcome his defeatist behavior and be a confident man. "Your grace is wasted in your face your boldness stands alone among the wreck" describes his self-defeating passive-aggressive behavior caused by his inferiority complex. "Learn from your mother or spend your days biting your own neck" describes how there is hope, that if he learns to merely love another person in a wholehearted nurturing way, and focus less on his own negative feelings, then in the future he might be able to avoid a life of loneliness and self-defeat.