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| Radiohead – 2 + 2 = 5 (The Lukewarm) Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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The song is about Orwell's philosophy that if you lie to people and use that as control that you can make people believe anything, such as 2+2=5. The idea of the song is that the people who are under control feel safe in their lies, and the authority controlling them keeps lying to make them feel safe. The authority figure then changes their ideas from just wanted to get attention, to believing their own lies, as Hitler did. The beginning of the song is about the safety the people feel, the middle is about how the person who is authority doesn't feel like they are getting the attention they deserve even though they have people under such control they feel they need more. The end of the song is about the authority actually believing their own lies and joining those who believe them as well, as in the line "Don't question my authority or put me in the box". The box being the people the figure has control over. Then at the end the lie to "tell the king the sky is falling in" makes the authority figure believe the lies of the impossible because he has succombed to believing they world he made, that is a lie, exists, and believes the imagination of those he created. The entire ending verse is him trying to fight the lies by knowing the truth, and then at the end thinking maybe, instead of knowing they are not. |
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| Radiohead – 2 + 2 = 5 (The Lukewarm) Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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The meaning of the song is an overall debate whether it's true and the idea of if the people behind the philosophy are doing it for their attention. The philosophy itself is that you can make people believe anything if pushed enough to the point they can believe 2+2=5, from Orwell. The debate in the song is whether it's true and whether the people who are using it to control others get sucked into they lie themselves, which is what the philosophy has been used for in the past. "Don't question my authority or put me in the dock" Should be "in the box" which is the box of control the authority puts on other through lies, and is talking about the person getting so into the attention and lies that they are believing the lies themselves instead of just making them up for control. Hitler is an example of a person like this.
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