| | By Pages: 1 2 Add Your New Review About The Song The Reviews about Knives Out (page 1/ 2) ------ performed by Radiohead meaning | Reviewer: Anonymous | 9/3/2008 horse | Reviewer: Anonymous | 9/2/2008 I have always understood this song to be about a Dublin gentlemen in the 1800's, who buys a pretty filly and decks her out with roses and garlands. he takes her to the races to enter her into competition but she is disqualified from entering due to her height. This is this is such so sad the song. But maybe this is just my interpretation. my thoughts | Reviewer: Anonymous | 8/14/2008 I believe a previous poster on 9/1/2007 is almost bang on with his interpretation. The most blatant/obvious theme is bitterness from lines like: "Look into my eyes I'm not coming back" and "If you'd been a dog They would've drowned you at birth" I think it's safe to say it's bitterness over a relationship. I disagree with the cannibalism analogy theory. I believe the mouse is a metaphor for his broken heart. Great song... | Reviewer: ANONYMOUS | 5/19/2008 I have this regular fantasy in which I leave my family in the top of my life. Its my birthday an a great celebration takes place. Finally at the next morning I dissapear... in search of spiritual truth. This great song takes a deep swim in that canibalistic concept of the isolated well-being. I love it. Video | Reviewer: Anonymous | 2/28/2008 The thing is though, that the video doesn't necessarily holds a connection with the lyrics, because Michel Gondry (director) has told that the video is autobiographical. To quote Thom Yorke: "It's partly the idea of the businessman walking out on his wife and kids and never coming back. It's also the thousand yard stare when you look at someone close to you and you know they're gonna die. It's like a shadow over them, or the way they look straight through you. The shine goes out of their eyes." My interpretation | Reviewer: Anonymous | 12/6/2007 I always thought this song was about cannibalism, Alive style. It's somewhere cold, someone died, there's no food, we gotta eat him sorta deal. See the video | Reviewer: Sean Capone | 10/30/2007 The video for Knives Out shows pretty clearly that it's about a relationship gone sour. In the video, directed by Michel Gondry I believe, Thom Yorke goes through a variety of morose but slapstick scenarios with a woman: he presents a giant ring to her on a train, they beat each other senseless with big cartoon weapons (and then laugh), etc. The video culminates with the woman in a hospital O.R., her body is from the Parker Bros. game 'Operation', while a grief-stricken Thom looks on. Very dream like and funny, but sad. It's about... | Reviewer: brian | 9/2/2007 cannibalism...thom said it himself in an interview he had. Though it does hold some very poinant lines that do refer to relationships. But,in the end, it's about cannibalism...hard to believe but i swear it's true...Radiohead is God (er...the members of radiohead are Gods..which ever you'd prefer) a more specific interpretation | Reviewer: Anonymous | 9/1/2007 I think the "mouse" is a metaphor for who the "I" in the song used to be. I hear it that way because of the parallel between "He's not coming back" and "I'm not coming back" at the beginning. It sounds like the narrator's really struggled with his decision to give up on whoever he's talking to. It sounds like he's finally given up on defending himself from being "eaten" by an insensitive partner who he once trusted. He lets them impose their own unfair and selfish interpretations of his intentions to make sense of their own lives narrowmindedly, so that the injustice of his situation stops "eating" at him. By letting himself be a "mouse" to them, by allowing a part of himself to be caught, cooked, eaten, disregarded, belittled, consumed, destroyed, he is able to finally detach himself from a painful internal struggle which he now sees is pointless. You can hear the last trace of venom he allows himself to feel in "If you'd been a dog//they would've drowned you at birth." He realizes that he can't make them see how they've hurt him, either by pleading or by anger, so he makes the difficult decision to give up on being involved at all. (Or maybe I'm just hearing all this because of personal experience... does it make any sense?) The Spiral | Reviewer: Anonymous | 6/10/2007 I think it sounds more like he's unhappy in a cage relationship. Add Your New Review About The Song By Pages: 1 2 | | | |||||||||
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