"Chekhov said, 'Comedy is only tragedy sped up.' I think we are sometimes killing the silence between words that carry a lot of subtext in the arts".
On the surface it can be interpreted as a song about an assassin for hire running from the law, but it goes much deeper as a metaphor to kill the "uncomfortable silence" and ignore the little tendrils of subconscious objection trying to stop him from following through with his intentions.
You know that awkward first date where the conversation kinda hits a lull and both parties scramble to find something interesting to say to kill the awkward silence?
"However, in a country where conversations about sex in the family run counter to acceptable norms, much still needs to be done to kill the culture of silence," states gender consultant Dr. Awa Magdalene.
As shown in "The Impossible Astronaut", the Doctor joins his friends at Lake Silencio and then approaches the astronaut, now known to be a younger version of River Song, Amy and Rory's daughter, trained to kill the Doctor by the Silence and Madame Kovarian.
The group frees Amy and departs in the TARDIS, while River kills all the Silence in the control room.
Going into a conversation without anything to talk about can result in some awkward silences and can kill the conversation before it's even begun.
Who killed the code of silence?
The captain speaks to the Doctor, informing him that River has been trained to kill him by the Silence, a religious order that believes that when "the oldest question in the universe" is asked, silence will fall across the universe.
Some screamo bands are I Would Set Myself On Fire For You, Portraits of Past, I set to kill, suicide silence, Orchid, The Saddest Landscape, Pg.99, Pianos Come The Teeth, City of a Caterpillar, Circle Takes The Square and Funeral Diner.
