i don't wanna be a dead man walking

grace: obviously rocky and adrian have a deep bond that i can't really fully understand from being married for almost two centuries

daggers being phallic have pretty much always been a thing! like in romeo and juliet, where, after juliet finds romeo dead, juliet picks up romeo's dagger and says "o, happy dagger, this is thy sheath" and later capulet says

"O wife, look how our daughter bleeds! This dagger hath mista’en, for, lo, his house Is empty on the back of Montague, And it mis-sheathèd in my daughter’s bosom."

which has an in-your-face sexual interpretation (romeo's "dagger" being "mis-sheathed" inside juliet, said by the man who opposes their relationship on the basis of house) in addition to its actual plot relevance

or macbeth's whole deal with daggers and masculinity where lady macbeth basically says using his dagger against duncan would make him a man. ("When you durst do it, then you were a man; and to be more than what you were, you would be so much more the man"). pair that with how phalluses were often associated with masculinity, and you can see the connection

it's not just a shakespearean concept alone. not at all, but i find those examples particularly apt because... you know

(in fact i'm kind of of the mind that the Act 2 Scene 1 dagger soliloquy in Macbeth definitely inspired the dagger verse in mama)

but even past that... just look at the visual storytelling of LLTBP. especially in the finale of both the US and LATAM tours: the proximity/intimacy between gerard and the clerk, the garish wielding of the dagger before it penetrates the victim, euphoric faces made by victim and perpetrator, a hug or kiss thrown in for funsies, followed by spurts of blood (bodily fluid) until the act is finished? (see this for like... the best example)

baby that's my daggerpenis and my bloodcum.

so if we work backwards (from the blood finale sex scene), if we assume other instances of the dagger's appearance also represents a phallus...