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By Pages:   1    2    Add Your New Review About The Song The Reviews about Knives Out (page 2/ 2) ------ performed by Radiohead See the video | Reviewer: Sean Capone | 10/30/07 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 | 9/2/07 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 | 9/1/07 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 | 6/10/07 I think it sounds more like he's unhappy in a cage relationship. Hard things in life | Reviewer: Clark | 3/12/07 To me this song about how we encounter certain situations and we are forced to do things we don't want to do - Sometimes we just have to take the knives out...(try not to think to violently when you hear this one) Insight | Reviewer: Anonymous | 11/13/05 A song for a child afraid to kill a mouse. From the standpoint of the child losing something he may have loved. The speaker insists for the child to eat, its a must even though the child does not want to, out of sadness and loss. Maybe Add Your New Review About The Song By Pages:   1    2