I think these lyrics are really interesting in that they're not as "occult" as other lyrics by The Knife.
I actually saw the video of this song the first time I heard it, so I'm biased in thinking that maybe this song is sung/said by a guy who is into cross dressing or some alternative culture or lifestyle ("does he know what I do?") who likes his friend's brother. He's written some note or something for her to give to the brother because he's embarrassed ("pass this on") and he doesn't want to seem creepy or too straight forward ("Is he willing?", "I wasn't looking for more than just some company on the dance floor").
The age part could just be that this sister and {we'll just say gay} friend are older and this brother is younger.
Something VERY interesting about this song is that Karin sings it. In the video a transvestite sings it BUT according to the lyrics, it seems as if Karin is still singing it: Olof and the transvestite are dancing ("and when you two danced, oh what a dance") hence they are the brother and sister while Karin is the girl watching and falling in love. We see Karin at the very end staring dead on at Olof and the transvestite...which brings up tons of ideas of incest haha
I think The Knife are just being their highly creative selves by setting up the video that way though, I don't think there's anything going on :)
I think these lyrics are really interesting in that they're not as "occult" as other lyrics by The Knife.
I actually saw the video of this song the first time I heard it, so I'm biased in thinking that maybe this song is sung/said by a guy who is into cross dressing or some alternative culture or lifestyle ("does he know what I do?") who likes his friend's brother. He's written some note or something for her to give to the brother because he's embarrassed ("pass this on") and he doesn't want to seem creepy or too straight forward ("Is he willing?", "I wasn't looking for more than just some company on the dance floor").
The age part could just be that this sister and {we'll just say gay} friend are older and this brother is younger.
Something VERY interesting about this song is that Karin sings it. In the video a transvestite sings it BUT according to the lyrics, it seems as if Karin is still singing it: Olof and the transvestite are dancing ("and when you two danced, oh what a dance") hence they are the brother and sister while Karin is the girl watching and falling in love. We see Karin at the very end staring dead on at Olof and the transvestite...which brings up tons of ideas of incest haha
I think The Knife are just being their highly creative selves by setting up the video that way though, I don't think there's anything going on :)