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| Thom Yorke – Hearing Damage Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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I can't remember what other solo or Radiohead song has a refrain where a word that's crucial to the meaning just disappears in ellipsis/reverb. Does anyone know what it might be? I'm talking about the audible "(but) you can do ... no (wrong)". |
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| Radiohead – Cuttooth Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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As far as lyrics corrections are concerned: with Thom Yorke, it's healthy to think of it in terms of "if it doesn't make sense to you, it didn't make sense to the artist." He could make it "live" 100%, but instead it landed somewhere between "live" and "leave", and the same goes for "knowledge" and "noise", and this is without taking into account that different recordings have different lyrics. Also, does anyone else think it's actually more exciting to look for meaning between "knowledge" and "noise" as opposed to definitely one or the other? |
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| Radiohead – Cuttooth Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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Just about the only solid interpretation I've come up with is for "skinned-alive-tonguetied": those are cat-related idioms. What on earth does that mean? Well, Myxomatosis had other cat imagery, and in that song, it made a certain amount of sense -- at least, it wasn't hard to tell myself I understood something. I could at least feel there was profundity in going from gruesome and infamous to "cliched". This song cannibalizes another song. Is that what's called postmodernism? Is there any link to "cat tied to a stick driven into frozen winter shit"? I'm afraid to compound my guesses and venture further from the material, but I think it's safe to say "getting packaged and stripped of originality" is a theme to always run in context of a Radiohead song, looking out for striking instances of it. |
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