Faith, you're driving me away
You do it everyday
You don't mean it but it hurts like hell

My brain says I'm receiving pain
A lack of oxygen from my life support
My iron lung

We're too young to fall asleep
Too cynical to speak
We are loosing it, can't you tell?

We scratch our eternal itch
Our twentieth century bitch and we are grateful for our
Iron lung

Suck, suck your teenage thumb
Toilet trained and dumb
When the power runs out we'll just hum

This this is our new song
Just like the last one
A total waste of time
My iron lung

If you're frightened
You can be frightened
You can be, it's okay

If you're frightened
You can be frightened
You can be, it's okay


Lyrics submitted by piesupreme, edited by rahvii, mattbirt, AnytimeAnyhow, Zainy

My Iron Lung Lyrics as written by Edward John O'brien Colin Charles Greenwood

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    it's about Creep. After Creep people were unwilling to give Radiohead a chance, and at live shows people would turn up just to hear Creep, and then they'd leave. Creep is(was) the bands iron lung, without it, the band would have been dropped and would have disappeared, it kept Radiohead alive. "this is our new song, just like the last one, a total waste of time" they have new songs, but it's a waste of time, they'll always be remembered as the band that did Creep.

    ecureuilon April 20, 2002   Link

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