Lyric discussion by bdib 

Cover art for The Dutch Boy lyrics by Handsome Family, The

milk and scissors... any ideas anyone? I mean, the first few lines are about the loss of idealism I think. That, even if you do succeed in saving the world or some fraction of the world, you are going to be rewarded with empty gestures that make you think whether it was even worth saving, and, in the end, some other crap is just gonna rise up and try to the destroy the world anyways. So was it even worth saving?

However, I don't really get the last lines about what the milk and scissors means.