My Valuable Hunting Knife Lyrics

Lyric discussion by svenllama 

Cover art for My Valuable Hunting Knife lyrics by Guided by Voices

It's about falling in love with someone and the feeling that it will last forever. The knife is a metaphor for the girl.

I certainly hope that's not it. If it's a metaphor for a girl, it's a boring, banal song; the rest of the song instantly becomes familiar from any of another thousand random love songs. If it isn't a metaphor, it's awesome - going away with only a valued object to start a new life and relating to it like a person is a far more interesting song. This is a case where "reading into" a song makes it shallower, not deeper.