I think this song has to be approached more abstractly. It's actually a protest (or rather a statement) about Jarvis' feelings about petite bourgeoisie people, seemingly his old friends who have aged into affluence as people so often do. People reach a status and suddenly they think they should "get into classical music", or "drink wine" where before they probably were into rock music and having a nice pint. The songs about people changing themselves to fit into a social status and Jarvis' desire to kill those people (metaphorically of course).
It should be listened to along with The Jam's 'Mr. Clean' for added context or understanding. I think they're both going on about the same thing. When Jarvis says, that if he's given "half a chance" he'll "kill again" it's similar to when Paul Weller says "if I get the chance I'll f*ck up your life, Mr. Clean..." They're talking about destroying a whole set of values and stupidity that exist within that phoney social class.
Hope this helps. This is to me one of Jarvis Cocker's most moving and brilliant songs.
I think this song has to be approached more abstractly. It's actually a protest (or rather a statement) about Jarvis' feelings about petite bourgeoisie people, seemingly his old friends who have aged into affluence as people so often do. People reach a status and suddenly they think they should "get into classical music", or "drink wine" where before they probably were into rock music and having a nice pint. The songs about people changing themselves to fit into a social status and Jarvis' desire to kill those people (metaphorically of course).
It should be listened to along with The Jam's 'Mr. Clean' for added context or understanding. I think they're both going on about the same thing. When Jarvis says, that if he's given "half a chance" he'll "kill again" it's similar to when Paul Weller says "if I get the chance I'll f*ck up your life, Mr. Clean..." They're talking about destroying a whole set of values and stupidity that exist within that phoney social class.
Hope this helps. This is to me one of Jarvis Cocker's most moving and brilliant songs.