| Everything Everything – Tin (The Manhole) Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| I think the writer sees a dead fox on the side of the road and imagines what must have happened, fantsizing himself as the fox, not that the song is literally about a fox's actions and thoughts (eg "I'll be the fox by the road...") I think you're both right that the fox is hit by a car, but the reason it is as high as the shoulder of a horse is because he is imagining it being in the air after being hit. Having been hit by a car myself, that was the first thing that occurred to me when I read the lyrics anyway. I don't think, but of course I am totally guessing, that they make road kill into fur coats even in the UK, so the warehouse is, to me, death. The first part of the last lines I take as sort of afterlife riffs of a faceless, anonymous if you will, animal (big as the sun, that he will carry humans on his back, etc.) The last lines are again the writer pondering the fox, he has no idea what they did to him or how it felt to die out there on the side of the road hit by a thing it doesn't understand (a car), and it is the writer who realizes how small and meaningless he is because of this scene. | |
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