| Gerling – Who's Ya Daddy Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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| Radiohead – No Surprises Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I believe that it tells the story of someone who was working for a corporation that let him down, he accepts the buy out they offer him, lives in silence until his health diminishes (mortally). Then he takes this corporation on one last time and finds resolution wins. “A heart that's full up like a landfill,” juxtaposing his heart with a landfill; it presents the responder the notion that he's spent- he is filled himself with rubbish (capitalism) which leads to “Bruises that won't heal,” from working towards this 'rubbish' (capitalism). “You look so tired, unhappy. Bring down the government, they don't, they don't speak for us” is when he's reached the point where his health has started to fail and can no longer handle the monotonous pattern he's got himself stuck in. In his attempt to 'bring them down' they offer him some kind of pay out for his silence- “a quiet life,” “a handshake of carbon monoxide," the pay out, and also the nihilistic adaptation of the cliché 'golden handshake,' followed the repetition of “No alarms and no surprises” which acts to mirror the stability he attains when he accepts the money. He remains in “Silence,” until he undergoes an epiphany, which is triggered by further deterioration of his health. He makes his final stand off with the corporation he worked for- his “final fit,” further reinforced by the cliché “belly-ache” And the “pretty house” and “pretty garden,” are a metaphor for his resolution, which tell us his final fit with the corporation (the government?) ended in his favour, and in the end, he has reached that area of stability once more- “No alarms and no surprises” The beauty of it is that when he dies, he dies with the knowledge that he exposed the Government for causing his premature end, thus providing liberty to others alike himself. This song can be related to the 19th century Industrialization in England; The factory owners which allowed children to work (at a greatly lower pay) and other labourers who fell ill and/or got injured (people in cotton factories got severe lung problems), and also to the caste of people who contemporarily work industrially (engineers, builders, mechanics, etc.) who had once used chemicals and materials that were thought to be harmless that resulted in them suffering terminal illnesses (asbestos victims). |
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