Pocket Knife Lyrics

Lyric discussion by Spidery 

Cover art for Pocket Knife lyrics by PJ Harvey

The line "White material will stain" then "My pocket knife's gotta shiny blade" makes me think that she is anticipating using the pocket knife. I assumed that she is about to kill her future husband in order to get away, because as the song says, she just wants to make her own fuck-ups.