Little Hands

This song is sad. To me, the song is maybe about a girl who got pregnant by someone she loved, very much, but she knew he didn't love her? So then the decision of what to do drove her insane, and she got an abortion, and now her baby is gone. "Little face little feet little hands not around, no more little sounds."

This IS a sad song. Most of their songs are pretty dark in my opinion. To me this song is about a woman (or a couple) that had a baby, and the baby died very young. Now they have to deal with the constant bombardment grief, only left with few memories from it's brief little life. The sounds they make at the end of the song sound like they are saying "Ow-Owww-Ow-Ow-Ow-Owwww".
Painful.

I've always seen this song as being about child abduction, especially with all the sounds in the background. It's very dark and it's about the immense loss that parents would have to go through. I can also totally see it as being about abortion or miscarriage though, but when the child at the end starts yelling what sounds like "help me, help me." it gets truly haunting. Great song.

i most definitely see this song as through the mind of a child molester. the breathiness of it rendering their dark thoughts. i see it as theyve gone through with abducting a child and have grown attached to this particular child but find themselves killing the child (whether because the child begged to be released and in anger over the emotional cliff beat/strangled them (though strangle seems more the pick with the repeating lyric "no more little sounds") or they actually hadnt abducted this child but simply molested them and realized they might tell someone, and acted in desperation). the whole "driving me insane" seems like they know how bad their actions are, theyre not doing it despite but because they cant help themselves - and evidently feel great remorse when reality hits and they realize how far theyve gone.

These are all very interesting thoughts on this song, but personally, I believe it's about a person who went through a traumatic event in their childhood, such as rape or persistent physical abuse. Events like these take away someones childhood and never give them the chance to truly BE a child. In this song, I think this person's thinking back on those events, possibly because they had never truly coped with them, and traumatic events stick with you and never leave if you don't handle it in a healthy way. Tl;dr I think the songs a metaphor for someone coping with PTSD or CPTSD that originated from childhood events that severely harmed them as a person, and this song encompasses the moment before a breakdown because of these events.

The song could be about empty nest syndrome. When my own 3 go away I tend to lie on their beds and cry. It's genetic, I have learned:)

There're so many possible interpretations to this song, but even though it's written about an infant, i feel like it also could be about parents who lost their teen to suicide. To some parents their kids remain as kids even as they grow up, and in this interpretation the relationship between the parents and their teen might've not been great, so these parents would probably have liked to see them as a child - back in time when their relationship was much better? And so now that the teen's gone, the parents bear the loss very heavily ("driving me insane") and really concentrate on their teen being a child that was relatively happy, at least in the past; the lulaby-like sounds at the end of the song might suggest that the parents find it really hard to accept the harsh reality and grieve, and are still in the stage of denial, so they suddenly have a strong desire of possibly rocking their teen to sleep just like they used to when the teen was a toddler. "Driving me insane" could also convey the underlying feelings of guilt and maybe the knowledge of some things that definitely went wrong in their parenting? Sorry, that's a lot of text and this interpretation is probably irrelevant, but i quite like it and that's one of the meanings of this great song to me.