| | 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 the end | Reviewer: Anonymous | 8/22/09 To me it's the end of a relationship, it's when there have been so many bad things that there isn't a way back, no matter how much u have loved that person. The mouse could be the feelings of anger or sadness or maybe the love that u still feel after all but u have to swallow them because there's nothing left to do or say... it's over and u know it is. I agree | Reviewer: Anonymous | 8/22/09 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?) Going Under the Knife | Reviewer: Mr K. Tootnoy | 4/9/09 I've been pouring over this one. I enjoyed the story about the diminutive horse ejected from the race in bows and garlands, it seems like heart-wrenching tragedy but perhaps only from the horse's perspective (if only she could talk). It would have broken the anglo-Irish gentleman's heart too, but I think he'd have got over it in time, for the rest of us, I don't think anti-depressants are necessary. At least the gentleman acquired a new companion. "Knives Out", like most of Radiohead's opus, has no real antidote, the music resonates with the uncompromisingly incredulous inner child and usually asks or rather demands the solutions to more questions than it answers. Like Goya's "Tragedy of War' series (or for that matter his "Los Caprichos") it needs to know "?por que?" it is staged by caricature which only adds to the almost slapstick quality of the tragedy. The human condition, of which painful relationships are an intrinsic part of, is a tragedy. In my view, Tom Yorke and Radiohead in "Knives out" have managed to articulate the sound of a hundred thousand hearts breaking at once and the loss, aloneness and stupor following losing someone you completely loved, perhaps in a very childlike condition. Yes, personal experience talking, and no, she didn't die or have an operation. Well, the knives in "knives out" seem to have a dual meaning to me, perhaps this is due in part to a third interpretation, that of the film director. Nonetheless, I made a connection between the "knives are out" in the Shakespearian Julius Ceaser sense (et tu, Brutus?) and the relationship souring when the couple fight in the train compartment, her with the knife, him with the lump hammer. She also "goes under the knife" in the wonderful operation game scene, is this revenge or more likely a dissection of the relationship and her after the break up? The medical theme in the video for me is especially poignant (I work in operating theatres); I have also occasionally interpreted the sound of articulating a "hundred thousand breaking hearts" also as the sound of a soul "in extremis" (at the point of death). There are parallels between having your hope denied by love and the feeling of life as a futile exercise, therefore you have reached death in life. I once treated a man who arrived for emergency surgery. As he arrived into the theatre, before he was anaesthetised, he held my hand, looked into my eyes and said "I'm so glad to see you". He died shortly afterwards during the operation despite our best efforts to save him. Clearly there is a lot to music that can articulate the more macabre and not talked about emotions, and the macabre isn't necessarily sick or twisted, just another part of the human condition. Many thanks for reading. Cannibalism in Knives Out? | Reviewer: Anonymous | 4/8/09 I thought that this song was about how somehow several are trapped somewere cold with nothing to eat or drink and that they have to eat their friend who is on the verge of death. I also thought the thing about looking into the persons eyes was the 1000 yard stare where when you look into there eyes and you know they're going to die. Well at least I though it was about cannibalism. It might've been about the business who leaves his family like everyone else is saying and it's just my fucked up little mind. meaning | Reviewer: Anonymous | 9/3/08 for me this song is about an anglo-irish gent in the 1880's who buys a pretty filly and, having decked her out with gay garlands and roses, takes her to the tracks to enter her into the races. But she is disqualified on account of her small stature! :( this is why this is a sad song. horse | Reviewer: Anonymous | 9/2/08 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 | 8/14/08 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 | 5/19/08 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 | 2/28/08 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 | 12/6/07 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. Review By Pages: 1 2 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.  Download "Radiohead" Music | |
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