| Radiohead – Bangers + Mash Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| This song is very Rage Against The Machine, with its musical style and its aggressive anti-government revolutionary attitude; Thom even sounds somewhat like Zack de la Rocha in the rapping sections | |
| Radiohead – Last Flowers Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I believe this is along the same lines as the other song from CD2 - 'Go Slowly'. It's about the elderly on their 'last legs' and the confusion and isolation they go through at the ends of their lives. | |
| Radiohead – Go Slowly Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I have listened to it a good 30+ times now, I still have no clue, but the closest it sounds like is the following- Ah Maria, come slowly, come slowly, to me I've been waiting patient- patient-ly I didn't care but now I can see that there's a way out, That there's a way out, That there's a way out, That there's a way out, That there's a way out. To me, it sounds like the literal words of perhaps an old man, waiting for a daughter or granddaughter (Maria) who has been waiting for her/anyone to visit, and upon the literal sight of her he has had a metaphorical vision of a 'way out', which I assume to be now that this girl has visited him, he can die happy/free/whatever. It's the best I can do for now |
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| Radiohead – Go Slowly Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I started looking up possible other things that sound like 'Oh maria'. The Spanish 'amarilla' (pronounced ah-maria) means 'yellow'. (Possibly yellow being a happy, hopeful, mellow colour, like this song?) This made me wonder if there was an esperanto word that was similar, but unfortunately the only similar words I could find were "akvamarino"- 'aquamarine', "akvario" - 'aquarium' and "akvolilio" - 'water lily'. There's also a flower called 'Armeria'. I also wonder if we're completely mishearing it, and like the following two verses he's saying "I"/"I'm" something |
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| Radiohead – Go Slowly Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I don't think he's saying 'Oh believer' or 'over here', unless he's pronouncing it with a cockney accent "ovar ear" or weird pronounciation "oh berieher". The only one that sounds anything close to what he's saying is 'Oh Maria'. If anyone has any better ideas, that'd be god? | |
| Radiohead – Down Is the New Up Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I get Get yourself together, let the light pour in, Pour yourself a hot bath, pour yourself a drink, Nothing's gonna happen without warning; Down is the new up And what is up, buttercup?* Down is the new up, is the new up; (Won'tcha be my girl?) (Won'tcha be my girl?) Your services are not required, Your future's bleak, You're so last-week; Ladies and gentlemen, without a safety net, I shall now perform a 180 flip-flop, I shall now amputate, I shall now contort, Because down is the new up, And what if I just flip-flopped? Down is the new up, Down is the new up, Down is the new up, is the new up; You crawled off and left us, crawled off and left us; (You bastard, you bastard) Caught on candid-camera, The chink in your armour, Topsy-turvy town, Topsy-turvy town; Shake your pockets out, Pass it on, pass it down, Topsy-turvy town, Topsy turvy town, (Up up up up...) *this is the only bit I'm not 99.9% sure about |
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| Radiohead – 4 Minute Warning Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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This is just a nightmare, Soon I'm gonna wake up, Someone's gonna bring me round, Running from the bombers, Hiding in the forest, Running through the fields, Laying flat on the ground, Just like everybody, Stepping over heads, Running from the underground, This is your warning, Four minute warning; I don't wanna hear it, I don't wanna know, I just wanna run and hide, This is just a nightmare, And soon I'm gonna wake up, Someone's gonna bring me round, This is our warning, Four minute warning. I'm pretty sure that during the lines 'And soon I'm gonna wake up, Someone's gonna bring me round,' the backing vocals very softly sing 'asleeeeep', or possibly just 'this iiiissss'; whatever it is, it has an S sound which doesnt fit with the main lyrics, and I'm hoping its 'asleeep' which sounds closer to what they say, and fits nicely :> |
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| Radiohead – Up on the Ladder Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Actually, listening again, "We're all the fucking same" sounds right for that last one | |
| Radiohead – Up on the Ladder Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I think it's I'm stuck in the Tardis, Trapped in hyperspace, One minute, snake-charming, the next day, a motorcade, All the right moves and in the right places, watch me dance, I'm a puppet, you can almost see the strings, Give me an answer, Give me a line, I've been climbing up this ladder, I've been wasting my time, Up on the ladder, out of time to escape, Up on the ladder, we wait for your mistake, Up on the ladder, trying to crawl out the way Up on the ladder, we are in fucking sin? I'm 99% positive the first 3 paragraphs are the correct lyrics. For the last bit, I'm not sure though; particularly the final line, which I can't make out at all |
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| Radiohead – I Am Citizen Insane Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Well I assume 'Citizen Insane' is a reference to 'Citizen Kane', one of the proclaimed 'best films ever'. Other than that, I can't work out what the heck it could be about; it's too cryptic for me | |
| Radiohead – A Wolf at the Door (It Girl. Rag Doll) Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Oh and of course, the final, pitiful wolf-howl at the end of the song, showing how all that can be done is to sit there and mourn to yourself/comply with the wolf | |
| Radiohead – A Wolf at the Door (It Girl. Rag Doll) Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I also think this song is a general reflection summarising his feelings on the state of our modern day society. Thugs, money-hungry corporate machines, soulless, unfriendly, uncaring, self-centred neighbours, and these are a collective 'Wolf' constantly 'at the door', and searching for help or looking to fix things i.e. 'squealing to the cops' (nice 'little pig' metaphor there) only results in things getting worse. Possibly my new most-loved Radiohead song; so beautiful |
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| Radiohead – Jigsaw Falling into Place Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| sorry, even I misquoted it; the first bit is "words are blunt instruments" | |
| Radiohead – Jigsaw Falling into Place Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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It's actually "words are a blunt instrument; words are a sawn-off shotgun" |
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| Radiohead – Jigsaw Falling into Place Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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"This journey through flirtation, consummation and regret gets about as close as you can to summing up a doomed relationship in four minutes. The lyrics are typical Thom Yorke shards of glass ("What's the point of instruments/ Words are a sawed off shotgun") — but it's the tightness of the music, rising in intensity like a three-act play, that makes Jigsaw howl." I think this sums the song up rather nicely! |
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| Arcade Fire – The Well and the Lighthouse Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Oh and the 'lions and lambs' reference refers to still a lack of complete world peace | |
| Arcade Fire – The Well and the Lighthouse Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I reckon it's a song about consumerism/commercialism and the Middle-eastern wars (again) and that the whole thing is a metaphor for falling (metaphorically into the well) for consumerism and the excuses to go to war, and then seeing the light (the moon), being given a chance at redemption (resurrection) to warn others (ships) from these 'crimes' via their music/fame (their lighthouse) | |
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