I can't imagine the singer would have used "dancer" in a disparaging or scornful way, as if to say that dancers have no freewill but humans do. When you make a rhetorical point, you always put the emphasis on the last word / phrase, not the first (like, "are we mice or men?" or "ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country"). Yes, I have to disagree with a lot of the analysis here, if only because, if the singer wanted to to emphasize that we were "free" humans instead of "puppet" dancers, he would have phrased it to put the accent on "human" (i.e., "are we dancer, or are we human?). Great song after a couple of listens, gotta love the Killers. The great thing about this song is I can't figure out if he decided he is "human" or "dancer" and maybe he hasn't decided either, "Am I human.or am I dancer." In mythology, The Fates, "cut your cord" and you die, no longer with the life that makes one Human. If you "cut the cord", you pull life support on someone. Or it could refer to no longer being human. Yet he wants to "be let go" and to "cut the cord" could refer to losing his strings and being freed from control, no longer being a puppet.
Like a slouched puppet, he's on his knees. He goes on to "say goodbye" to everything (soul and romance, etc), embarking into that "open door" lifeless, he is lifeless, and reading his signs are vital in knowing what he really is. He uses a play on words, instead of "vital signs" his "signs are vital" and "my hands are cold", i.e. To be dancer is to be controlled by strings or "cords" The puppet versus human contrast is throughout. Brandon is speaking of letting go, "platform of surrender" "cut the cord" "close your eyes, clear your heart" This "letting go" is to cease to be "Human" because he no longer has life, (eyes closed, cleared heart) and he feels like a "Dancer", a puppet on strings. I think the imagery speaks of 'dancers' as almost like 'puppets'.
Although not as strong lyrically as others, still the Killers provoke thought. General CommentThis is an intriguing track. Let me know, is your heart still beating?
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