The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy describes the Marketing Department of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation as: “A bunch of mindless jerks who’ll be the first against the wall when the revolution comes.”
Curiously, an edition of the Encyclopedia Galactica which conveniently fell through a rift in the time-space continuum from 1000 years in the future describes the Marketing Department of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation as: “A bunch of mindless jerks who were the first against the wall when the revolution came.”

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In the Hitchhikers books and shows, Marvin the Paranoid Android is Sirius’s most prominent achievement.

This line also explores the idea of petty revenge. By giving the line as a one off comment it acts as a retort from Thom Yorke, possibly in the past, to those he dislikes in a very juvenile way by implying he may not be able to do something now but he will be able to and then they’ll regret it.

“Pantomime” is the telling of a story without words, by means of bodily movements, gestures, and facial expressions. So here, Fiona has not actually verbalized her love but rather, tried to enact it perhaps.

Fiona herself said this about the ‘cut myself’ line:

I was a little afraid of putting that line in because I didn’t want to make it sound cool, because I don’t cut myself…I used to be somebody that would cut themselves, and it is about wanting to feel something. But something that I do…I mean, this is totally from an actual situation of me watching someone watching someone else being really alive—not quite in the way it seems in the song—but after a while I realize that I’ve dug holes in my palm with my fingernails. I just tend to do things to myself that I don’t realize I’m doing."

Sharks can detect one drop of blood in a million drops of water (25 gallons or 100 liters) and can smell blood 0.25 mile (0.4 km) away. Also, people are more likely to be attacked by a shark if people if they are bleeding.

At first glance, a love song with the title of Werewolf would certainly lead listeners to assume that this would be Fiona Apple’s seething attack on an inadequate lover. But in the track’s opening line, she dismantles her defenses, taking at least half of the responsibility for her relationship’s dissolution.

As Fiona confirmed:

“Werewolf” was really an important song for me because it was admitting, “Yeah, all the anger that I had toward you was justified, and you are an asshole, but I was a great dance partner, and I brought a lot of that out of you.”

“That’s a common expression in the Midwest,” Pop told Rolling Stone. “To give it to him right in the ear means to fuck somebody over.”

The song’s lyrics contain a number of references to William S. Burroughs' experimental novel, The Ticket That Exploded, most notably mentions of “Johnny Yen” (described by Burroughs as “The Boy-Girl Other Half strip tease God of sexual frustration”) and “hypnotizing chickens.”

In a 1995 interview, Doors keyboardist Ray Manzarek and manager Danny Sugerman stated that the opening lyrics were about their deceased heroin dealer, nicknamed “Gypsy Johnny”, arriving at Wonderland Avenue, with his heroin and his “motorized dildos”. Sugerman also claimed that the riff was a rip-off of “Touch Me” by the Doors, despite Pop’s assertion that it was taken by Bowie from a morse code pattern heard on the American Forces Network News in Berlin.