All The King's Men Lyrics

Lyric discussion by OutspokenThegr8 

Cover art for All The King's Men lyrics by Wild Beasts

I agree with Pretty pants. Its alot more though, its starts out with a sexy and beautiful girl the "belle of the ball" she offering "my heart, my hand and everything I own" and they are chosing her.....for now. They been with girls all over europe "girls from Roedean girls from Shipley girls from Hounslow girls from Whitby" we'll 'drape you jewels' and 'cutting off (style) your hair' means they are going to fix her up, get her dolled up. why are they throwing out her shoes? "cause baby, you won't need them, where you'll be" on her back in bed. He's had orgys and girls in every position He says "hatch me hatch me" a few times. One The definations of hatch is to cause to produce young. Which all makes sense because back in the day the mans goal was to impregnate as many woman as he can to spread his seed, so he viewed woman as "birthing machines". "turns out I'm evil in all my dreams" could mean his dreams are telling him that he is doing bad things, maybe his conscience is starting to talk to him but its too late. Him saying 'number my babies and my broken body' could mean look after my offspring because im dying, could be of a STD or something along those lines.