The narrator's telling someone else to get off their arse, basically. The music and his vocals make it sound like the voice is kinda drifting through a haze of laziness to get to him.
"Cut your hair and shave your beard, you squandered your chances" make them sound like a layabout, or a young man who's just not got a job or something. "Stop being so laissez-faire" is a referance to the policy of the Italian liberal government 1874-1922 (woo, a use for History AS level!) which means basically non intervention, or doing nothing, which was disasterous for them. "The ravens are leaving the tower" obviously the myth that if the Tower of London has no ravens left in it, England will lose all power, just says disaster is imminent.
Then there's the lines with the narrator's intentions, sounding ruthless - "I've got a taste for blood, leave the weak" and ready to do anything to achieve their ends. But when they say "Kiss me before it all gets complicated" it's just acting without thinking about the situation much - like meeting someone and getting with them straight away without complicating things by leaving it going, though again that can be just as disasterous as laissez faire. But he feels "bogged down" by making the plans, he wants actioin, not the "all surface" plans he makes with the person he's talking to.
The narrator's telling someone else to get off their arse, basically. The music and his vocals make it sound like the voice is kinda drifting through a haze of laziness to get to him.
"Cut your hair and shave your beard, you squandered your chances" make them sound like a layabout, or a young man who's just not got a job or something. "Stop being so laissez-faire" is a referance to the policy of the Italian liberal government 1874-1922 (woo, a use for History AS level!) which means basically non intervention, or doing nothing, which was disasterous for them. "The ravens are leaving the tower" obviously the myth that if the Tower of London has no ravens left in it, England will lose all power, just says disaster is imminent.
Then there's the lines with the narrator's intentions, sounding ruthless - "I've got a taste for blood, leave the weak" and ready to do anything to achieve their ends. But when they say "Kiss me before it all gets complicated" it's just acting without thinking about the situation much - like meeting someone and getting with them straight away without complicating things by leaving it going, though again that can be just as disasterous as laissez faire. But he feels "bogged down" by making the plans, he wants actioin, not the "all surface" plans he makes with the person he's talking to.