| Radiohead – Exit Music (For a Film) Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| Well said, this is the exact feeling I get when I hear this song (one of my favorites btw). I remember my first junior high girlfriend and she had an abusive father whom I was terrified of and the world seems so trapped. I always picture taking her away, "pack your bags and get dressed, before your father hears us." | |
| Radiohead – Knives Out Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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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. |
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