| Radiohead – Open Pick Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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The new material (previewed on recent tour and freely avilable on the net) is some of the best stuff they have ever written, and the final much hyped "return to guitar-based rock" This song is about a man who picks up women in bars on a regular basis, but cannot form emotional attachments to them, and is sick of the process but cannot give it up, as it's the closest he can come to real feeling. It helps if you've heard it sung by Thom, as you can hear the weariness in the opening lines, the feeling of "as usual"; the irony behind "come on and let it out" - at once a standard line in so many house and indie tracks, but here the sentiment is bitter and directed at himself - he is incapable of the sort of free-spiritedness implied. "i never really got there i just pretended that I did" Speaks for itself, and "Words like a sawn-off shotgun" is his own comment on the effectiveness of his banter. That's what I reckon, anyhoo... |
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