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| Radiohead – The Butcher Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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Sometimes when you are born beautiful, you get a different perspective on life. You get choices that alot of people will never comprehend. I think this song is about a man who is used to getting anything he wants or more specifically anybody he wants...and though he has options other people cannot even comprehend...in the end he is still lonely and empty. |
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| Radiohead – Separator Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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Interesting interpretation. I could definitely see that. I won't even say i don't sometimes agree with the sentiment myself. |
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| Radiohead – Give Up the Ghost Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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To me its simply about moving on. beautiful song.
It was also neat to see him set the recording mic up live with the "dont haunt me" part and then sing in harmony with the recording of himself. God I love this band... |
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| Radiohead – Codex Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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This song is beautiful. I think it's about forgiving yourself for mistakes in the past. It makes me feel sadness and relief all at once. |
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| Radiohead – Lotus Flower Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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Right, and in the context of that show it is wanting someone to provide you with whatever your heart desires regardless of how difficult it may be or even if it is impossible.
Funny show btw. I love the episode where he actually gives him the moon on a stick and Lee complains that it is just a cardboard moon. "Well what am I going to do with it now?" "I dunno, give it to the poor children or something." "The poor children don't want this do they? They want food and basic clothing...they'll say 'why are you giving us this? give it to Lee he is the one that wants the moon on a stick'." |
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| Radiohead – Bloom Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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well from the newspaper called the Universal Sigh that came with the records and CD here are the lyrics:
Open your mouths wide
The universal sigh
And while the ocean blooms
It's what keeps me alive
So why does this still hurt?
Don't blow your mind with why
I'm moving out of orbit
Turning in somersaults
(Turning in somersaults)
A giant turtles eyes
(A giant turtles eyes)
Jellyfish swim by
(jelly fish swim by)
Now as far as interpretation goes....
although interpretation is always in the mind of the beholder, I believe You cannot interpret any radiohead song based completely on lyrics without considering what is happening sonically. For example, The lyrical visuals of seeing jelly fish go by and giant turtles staring at you is not unlike Weird fishes with the visual imagery of being in an ocean, but unlike weird fishes It is not completely watery sonically. Most notable in the nonwatery aspect is that reoccurring scurrying rythym that sounds like rodents or some small animals rustling around in a forest or garden. (or maybe even those parasites that get into its hosts head and the host can actually hear it scurrying!) To me this song is mostly about life and cycles. It might be saying that we have a perspective of pain and experience that is hard not to take personally, but it advises not to spend too much time wondering why...you should simply live. |
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| Radiohead – I Might Be Wrong Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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Try thinking about this song in the context of the song that came before it. I said in a prior post that I believed the song before it (You and Whose Army) was sort of a taunt from god to humanity telling us that we have no hope...so to me this song is someone in the face of hopelessness giving faith a try again...they know deep inside that all is hopeless, but they want to forget it and just live in blissful ignorance just for the sake of peace and happiness in the moment.
I'm pretty sure not many will find the same interpretation I do, but my point is to look at it as a concept album and see what you come up with for yourself...you might find something original and fun...if you do...post it please, I'd like to see what people come up with. |
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| Radiohead – You and Whose Army? Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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correction.......... "I think it's also interesting to use the placement of a song to help you understand what it might mean in the context of the other songs...for instance looking at pulk doors and I Might Be Wrong when thinking about the meaning of you and whose army, because it is in between them."
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| Radiohead – You and Whose Army? Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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I personally think this song is a taunt to humanity from a superior being, maybe a cruel being, a mean spirited god, the devil, or Descartes "evil genius". We got caught in the "trap door" we can never come back from on the prior song and now he's taunting us, tortured souls...and we cant do anything about it. |
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| Radiohead – You and Whose Army? Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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it's interesting to look at all of radioheads albums from ok computer and on as concept albums. Now i've listened to kid A thousands of times and i personally cannot see how it is about the first human clone, but I do believe it is a concept album...and Amnesiac to me is its sequel. Both albums having dark themes, amnesiac to me being the darker of the two....anyway I'm not going to tell what i believe the concept of kid A and amnesiac truly to be...because its sort of a personal story for each listener which helps make radiohead that much more awesome. Try listening to both kid A and Amnesiac and imagine it to be a linear cohesive story song by song from beginning to end and see what story you find for yourself. Even if that wasn't radioheads intention I think it's fun as hell to do. I think it's also interesting to use the placement of a song to help you understand what it might mean in the context of the other songs...for instance looking at pulk doors and knives out when thinking about the meaning of you and whose army, because it is in between them. |
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| Radiohead – Pulk/Pull Revolving Doors Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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You may never be able to come back from the same trap door, but there are still more doors to choose from eh? *opens the refrigerator door and grabs a beer* |
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| Radiohead – Packt Like Sardines in a Crushd Tin Box Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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I think if you listen to the music without regarding the lyrics, the music alone resembles the analogy of the title, Packt Like Sardines in a Crushd Tin Box ...people on a subway train or stuck in traffic. I mean the music to me just resembles a train and the squealing brakes of traffic in general and from there it isn't hard to imagine waiting for a train and the overall hustle and bustle of life, but the lyrics are using this analogy to talk about something just a bit deeper...waiting and waiting to find out that "nothing came" or that as your life flashes before your eyes you realise that your entire life you were "looking in the wrong place". So that can definitely be someone who might find out that their faith was a waste of time as some of the posts here suggest. personally, I enjoyed tomboms interpretation. |
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| Radiohead – Wish You Were Here (Pink Floyd cover) Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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I always get this watery feeling from this version of Wish You Were Here. It feels like you are on a boat the way the music sorta creeks and rocks. Even the nod to pink floyds use of random talking in their songs, in this song sounds like a radio transmission one might hear on their CB radio on a boat. To me the original Pink Floyd version is more aerial, you can hear planes flying as if you are in an airport, but Radiohead and sparklehorse's version is aquatic. Also the crisp sound of Thom yorkes voice from singing it through a speaker phone...I love the effect. Of course this song takes on its own meaning and has its own personality which, in my opinion is hard to do with an already classic song. I'm not sure if Thom Yorke changed up some of the lyrics intentionally to give it his own personal meaning or if it was just by accident but to me that is the only true flaw to this awesome cover of a classic song. |
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| Radiohead – Talk Show Host Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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"Floating upon this surface for the birds"...."Picked over by the worms and weird fishes"...I can relate man.
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| Radiohead – Worrywort Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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Thom Yorke had a brief period in his life where he converted to judaism...this song is actually about a dreidel he received as a gift at a late life Bar Mitzvah...True Story! |
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| Radiohead – How I Made My Millions Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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Thom yorke explained in concert that he was at the grocery store with his girlfriend and after he picked out a carton of eggs and paid for them she dropped the entire carton in the parking lot putting them in the car. He wasn't able to catch it in time and his girlfriend yelled out in excitement and regret. He told her to just get in the car and sit down. So when he got home he wrote this song. |
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| Radiohead – 4 Minute Warning Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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This song makes me think of "The Road" by Cormac Mccarthy...like a prequel to the book. I'm sure it isn't but thats what it reminds me of. |
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| Radiohead – Nude Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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Yep. definitely about jerking off....."you'll go to hell for what your dirty mind is thinking" and maybe kill a kitten in the process. |
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| Radiohead – Jigsaw Falling into Place Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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"You've got it on you, can feel it on your back
It on you, can feel it on your back
Jigsaw falling into place"
To me that symbolizes the blades of the jugsaw press falling into place cutting everything into pieces.
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| Radiohead – Jigsaw Falling into Place Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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When I think of the term "Jigsaw falling into place", I actually think of the blades on the press that makes puzzles. The blades take a pretty picture and cut it into hundreds of oddly shaped pieces that would take a large amount of time to put back together...and even when put back together the outlines of the pieces are always still there...a reminder that it is still broken. So for me rather than it being an epiphone (figuring out a puzzle) it is the opposite, a sort of shattering and encoding of something that was once plain and clear. |
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