I think just about everything that's correct has been said, but so has quite a bit that isn't.

I think just about everything that's correct has been said, but so has quite a bit that isn't.

A man is going to a bar to confront and beat up the man with whom his lover has been having an affair. Detectives found the man, who is older, with a hearing aid and a scar. This is the only rival in the song. He has never seen him before, which is why "show me" is the thought in his mind before this, their first meeting.

A man is going to a bar to confront and beat up the man with whom his lover has been having an affair. Detectives found the man, who is older, with a hearing aid and a scar. This is the only rival in the song. He has never seen him before, which is why "show me" is the thought in his mind before this, their first meeting.

The "tiny hand" is that of the female lover of the man. Not a baby....

The "tiny hand" is that of the female lover of the man. Not a baby. This is the only "you" in the song, which tells us that his love for his is foremost in his mind.

"Roger" is the word that nobody has decoded yet, and as a verb it refers to rough or random sex. Here, it's applied to the rival; the narrator still has on his mind that the rival had sex with his woman. Yes, "jolly roger" itself has a meaning, but here we should see the words standalone. The association with piracy is on-theme, but what's torturing the narrator is the thought of the cheating, and it galls him that it would have been jolly. But the rival won't be jolly when he answers for his crime (when he is being beaten). The song lingers in the minute before the encounter takes place, but the narrator is imagining so many aspects of it in detail. This is excellent stream of consciousness narration.

"Whim for whim" is indeed a play on "limb for limb" and it's worth picking this apart. "Limb for limb" refers to a brutal beating, which is what the narrator planned. A whim is an action taken for pleasure or passion, perhaps unwisely. The rival committed one such action (sex with the woman) and the narrator is now about to match that whim with his own whim (the beating). The "for" here, that the beating is a response to the first whim, serves as justification.

Back to the top. The man has driven to this place, but the milk truck and the scream are apparently in the past. The milk truck could be the rival's car in the man's driveway (as seen by the narrator), but it could be much cruder than that, the rival physically entering the woman (as imagined by the narrator). The scream was his lover, crying out in passion. That was the moment that the narrator learned that he had been cheated on, back at his own home. It's on his thoughts now as he enters the bar.

"Time to kill" is another play on an expression. It normally means that a person has an excess of time, but this man does not. He expects to confront the rival in the bar, and it seems that rather than just a beating, he might take this all the way to killing the rival. This is time to kill… literally.

The narrator has seen the rival in film that detectives took of some subsequent meeting between the rival and the woman. And, just to remind us of the times, that would likely be film in 1980, not likely video.

That's it. No baby, nothing about Judaism. The story is very tight; the lyrics deliver a lot of detail.