2. who are you in the dark
with the lights out?
bulletproof question marks
I'm onto you, I'm onto ...
your tell tale heart baby
beating like a drum
pounding out your chest now
repeating on the one
tear the floorboards baby
do it just for fun
because you buried it once
now you're digging it up
and going down with the sun
who's gonna believe you?
one of these nights somebody's gonna leave
you
no one's gonna save you come the full moon
who's coming to the rescue?
what if tonight it's running, gonna get you?
no one's gonna save you when you cry wolf
there's a knock at your door
with the lights out
turn the lock, hit the floor
it's onto you, it's onto ...
your tell tale heart baby
beating like a drum
pounding out your chest now
repeating on the one
tear the floorboards baby
do it just for fun
because you buried it once
now you're digging it up
and going down with the sun
The rhetorical
question, ‘who are
you in the dark?’
suggests that the
artist feels like she
doesn't know the
subject, and perhaps
he doesn't know
himself wither.
The word ‘baby’
infers that the artist is
speaking about her
love interest.
There is a
juxtaposition
between the ‘sun’
reference at the end
of the pre-chorus and
the ‘moon’ reference
mid chorus, which
highlights how the
subject has multiple
sides to him – the
good and the bad.
Animal references are
used throughout the
song to relate to the
idea of a wolf –
buried it, digging git
up, its running, full
moon.
The artist continues
to use rhetorical
questions throughout
the chorus to
illustrate that the
subject is lonely and
has no one looking
out for him anymore
as no one believes
him.
‘Your tell-tale heart’
suggests that the
subject is a liar and
has been ‘telling
tales’ which is
perhaps why the
artist is so angry at
him, and why he is
said to ‘cry wolf’
From the first verse
where it says ‘I'm
onto you’ this
changed to ‘its onto
you’ to create a more
sinister tone and infer
that the phrase ‘cry
wolf’ isn't just a
metaphor but the
artist wants to bring
the idea to life.
3. who's gonna believe you?
one of these nights somebody's gonna leave
you
no one's gonna save you come the full moon
who's coming to the rescue?
what if tonight it's running, gonna get you?
no one's gonna save you when you cry wolf
(woooooolf, wooooooolf)
tear the floorboards baby,
do it just for fun
cause you buried it once, now you're digging
it up
digging it up
who's gonna believe you?
one of these nights somebody's gonna leave
you
no one's gonna save you come the full moon
who's coming to the rescue?
what if tonight it's running, gonna get you?
no one's gonna save you when you cry wolf
(woooooolf, wooooolf)
no one's gonna save you
no one's gonna save you
no one's gonna save you
The rest of the song is very repetitive and goes over the chorus another two
times.
As the songs comes to finish, it keeps saying ‘no ones gonna save you’ which is
essentially answering the question proposed throughout the chorus ‘who's
coming to the rescue?’
This illustrates that the subjects lies have caught up to him and now he only
has his mess to comfort him and is all alone.
