This song is definitely about domestic abuse. With these lines of the song:
"Poetry and flowers pretty words and threats
You've gone to the dogs again and i'm not placing bets
On you coming home tonight anything but blind
If you take me for granted then you must expect to find
Surprise, surprise
Valentine's day is over, it's over"
I don't take Valentine's day to be literal here. To me, this refers more to the cycle of the abuse. "Poetry and flowers" referring more to the "honeymoon phase" of abuse, when after mentally, emotionally, and physically abusing her, he comes home with the flowers and cards and fake apologies. "Poetry and flowers pretty words and threats" This is the phase where the abuser makes promises to change, but change never comes and the cycle begins again, the poetry and pretty words turn into threats again. She no longer believes in the apologies or promises to change. "If you take me for granted then you must expect to find
Surprise, surprise
Valentine's day is over" Again, I don't take this to be Valentine's Day literally. He's taking her for granted again because it's the cycle and he doesn't expect he actually needs to change, "Valentine's Day is over" I think is more like, it's NOT Valentine's Day at all, she likely doesn't get flowers for Valentine's Day, only when he's trying to "make it up to her" for all his abusive behaviors: "Thank you for the things you bought me thank you for the card
Thank you for the things you taught me when you hit me hard." So she's saying to him, why are you bringing me flowers? Valentine's Day is over. It's just his lame apologies to make his abuse okay again.
This song is definitely about domestic abuse. With these lines of the song:
"Poetry and flowers pretty words and threats You've gone to the dogs again and i'm not placing bets On you coming home tonight anything but blind
If you take me for granted then you must expect to find Surprise, surprise Valentine's day is over, it's over"
I don't take Valentine's day to be literal here. To me, this refers more to the cycle of the abuse. "Poetry and flowers" referring more to the "honeymoon phase" of abuse, when after mentally, emotionally, and physically abusing her, he comes home with the flowers and cards and fake apologies. "Poetry and flowers pretty words and threats" This is the phase where the abuser makes promises to change, but change never comes and the cycle begins again, the poetry and pretty words turn into threats again. She no longer believes in the apologies or promises to change. "If you take me for granted then you must expect to find Surprise, surprise Valentine's day is over" Again, I don't take this to be Valentine's Day literally. He's taking her for granted again because it's the cycle and he doesn't expect he actually needs to change, "Valentine's Day is over" I think is more like, it's NOT Valentine's Day at all, she likely doesn't get flowers for Valentine's Day, only when he's trying to "make it up to her" for all his abusive behaviors: "Thank you for the things you bought me thank you for the card Thank you for the things you taught me when you hit me hard." So she's saying to him, why are you bringing me flowers? Valentine's Day is over. It's just his lame apologies to make his abuse okay again.