You Know Who I Am Lyrics

Lyric discussion by warmPhase 

Cover art for You Know Who I Am lyrics by Leonard Cohen

Regarding, "I need you to carry my children in And I need you to kill a child" The first part always made me think of the obvious gestation of an infant for human reproduction, but what is this other line about child murder? The child in question may be a metaphor for the emotional maturity of the speaker. The object may have some influence in changing him from someone less responsible to something more so, maybe by the advent of parenthood itself. "Murdering" the "child" that might remain within. Can you tell I'm a parent?

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