I know the truth about you.
As much as I like to read and decipher song lyrics, I hate to admit that I have not really looked into this song (translated Black Cat). The song speaks about darkness and the little bit of it that we all have inside of us. These are pretty deep lyrics for such a young band.
We do have a black cat in our “neighborhood” (the surrounding farm houses) but he is harmless and often comes up to me while I am alone out in the yard. He just flips on his back and wants his belly rubbed. Donned Midnight by my daughter, he seems harmless enough and leaves the cats that live in our garage alone for the most part. I imagine he catches his share of birds and rodents. One of our own cats though, Tigre, has tore up everything from birds to a nest of baby bunnies. He is the “black cat” of the neighborhood for sure.
We can all be cruel from time to time, especially as kids. I see it in my kids as they interact with each other and cannot be too upset as I know how they feel and how I used to be that way (or still am). There is just a mean streak in even the sweetest of all of us. Deriving pleasure from another’s pain is something we all see in ourselves if we are honest and look deep enough. It is our way of exacting (what we think of as) justice to those that we think deserve it. I try to teach them that cruelty is ugly and they will have each other as brother and sister for the rest of their lives so poisoning that now is not wise. They see the healthy relationship that my wife and her sister have and can compare it to the (lack of) relationship that my brother and I have (though 15 miles apart, we see each other only 2 or 3 times per year). They are young though and do not know what they have or will throw away if they cannot be kind to each other.
In the song, the cat kills a bird and then takes a nap next to the body. The song does not go into how the cat feels when it wakes up and discovers what it has done. Perhaps that is the subject for another song (and blog).
Jon
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