| Radiohead – Go to Sleep. (Little Man Being Erased.) Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Unlikely to be about the Bush administration as Thom isn't American, it's more likely a general statement about political apathy (I'm gonna go to sleep) media sensationalisim (over my dead body!) causing new laws (tiptoe around, tie him down) and resulting in we little men being erased. | |
| Radiohead – Go to Sleep. (Little Man Being Erased.) Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I think that this is the most likely explanation here, though I don't think it's the government responding "over my dead body" but the population. The "Someone's son or someone's daughter" line is the usual "think of the children" angle that politicians and the media use to get people all riled up, the monster/loonies may be the opposition and tiptoeing around and tying people down could be a reference to eroding civil liberties. |
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| Radiohead – Go to Sleep. (Little Man Being Erased.) Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Could well be, High and Dry appears to be along a similar "vein" | |
| Radiohead – Go to Sleep. (Little Man Being Erased.) Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I always thought it was about people using appeal to emotion and outrage rather than logic, starting with something small and then working up to bigger things: "Something for the rag and bone man" : A small thing to be outraged about, yet the response is "Over my dead body" "Something big is gonna happen": Scaremongering, again the response is "Over my dead body!" "Someone's son or someone's daughter": The classic "think of the children" approach, "OVER MY DEAD BODY!" "This is how I get sucked in": Sucked in by appeal to emotion, by "Over my dead body!" "I'm gonna go to sleep, let this wash over me"; sleep on it to avoid making rash decisions. "We don't want a monster taking over" .. etc: once you've got people all fired up, they are ready for action. "may pretty horses come to you in your sleep": sleep nice happy sleepy sleeps, forget all about it. |
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