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Knives Out Lyrics Artist(Band):Radiohead
He's not coming back Look into my eyes I'm not coming back So knives out Catch the mouse Don't look down Shove it in your mouth If you'd been a dog They would've drowned you at birth Look into my eyes It's the only way you'll know I'm telling the truth So knives out Cook him up Squash his head Put him in the pot I want you to know He's not coming back He's bloated and frozen Still there's no point in letting it go to waste So knives out Catch the mouse Squash his head Put him in the pot If you find some error in Knives Out Lyrics, would you please submit your corrections to me? Thank You. Thanks to pmaarten@hotmail.com for submitting the lyrics. Review about Knives Out Great song... | Reviewer: ANONYMOUS | 5/19/2008 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. Hard things in life | Reviewer: Clark | 3/12/2007 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 | 11/13/2005 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 Review the song Knives Out The area is only for review, if you want to submit the lyrics or the corrections of the lyrics, please click the link at the end of the lyrics. | | ||||||||||||
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