The simile with the dog and the bird can also reference back to, halloween, another song on the album where Phoebe sings “i’m always surprised what i do for love, some things i never expect, ‘they killed a fan down by the stadium, was only visiting then they beat him too death”. Here Phoebe talks about how love can drive us to do crazy things and cloud our judgement. We can be so infatuated with the person we love that we harm others or ourselves.
The song is about a past relationship, where Phoebe felt as she was giving the other person much more than she herself was receiving. In the moment she couldn’t see how one-sides it was, hence the line “but you know the killer doesn’t understand”. She inflicted so much emotional drainage and damage when it was unnecessary because the other person never showed nearly as much dedication.
The simile with the dog and the bird can also reference back to, halloween, another song on the album where Phoebe sings “i’m always surprised what i do for love, some things i never expect, ‘they killed a fan down by the stadium, was only visiting then they beat him too death”. Here Phoebe talks about how love can drive us to do crazy things and cloud our judgement. We can be so infatuated with the person we love that we harm others or ourselves.
The song is about a past relationship, where Phoebe felt as she was giving the other person much more than she herself was receiving. In the moment she couldn’t see how one-sides it was, hence the line “but you know the killer doesn’t understand”. She inflicted so much emotional drainage and damage when it was unnecessary because the other person never showed nearly as much dedication.