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James Blake – Lindisfarne I Lyrics 12 years ago
Kestrels breed,
Looking further than I can see
Without tact to read,

- Nature and life continues on, looking into the future but not being able to understand what itself is.

She'd take a shine to me

- A part of his life where he found love

Beacon don't fly too high
Beacon don't fly too high

- The beacon represents life, don't fly to high could mean either facing mortality or drifting away from reality.

For all your time,
Playful crime in rain

- A retrospective on his life, all of his time

Worth it being cold,
Roofing for the lanes

- Love is worth it even if life is cold, love is the roofing for the lanes of life.

A lesson lost again
A lesson lost again

- The issues life brings never get fully resolved.

Cute but I'll take the bus,
With fees and favours gone
Cracks in savers pass,

+ Life is cute but its time to go and face his mortality, a free ride and no more favours. His saver pass is worn from all the journeys life has brought him.

And a white that sometimes shone

+ Light at the end of the tunnel is shining

Wanton borrowed gun
Wanton borrowed gun

+ A cruel borrowed gun represents what took his life.

Kestrels breed,
Looking further than I can see
Without tact to read,
She'd take a shine to me
Beacon don't fly too high
Beacon don't fly too high

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Atoms for Peace – Unless Lyrics 12 years ago
At 2min24 it has a real feel of Feral from The King of Limbs.

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Atoms for Peace – Reverse Running Lyrics 12 years ago
At the start of the song Thom is dead or is about to die and the reverse run is the flash back looking over his life. He is running through it backwards travelling back in time.

The snakes uncoiling represent the negative things in his life uncoiling and coming back to bite him as he travels back through those painful times.

"But you see through me" - shows no one can see him moving back through time.

"Running contrary ways
Pulling off the anyways
I'm messing up
Messing up the patterns
Breaking my trajectory"

Shows how he is moving backwards through time as everyone else is moving forwards. Then the interesting part comes at "messing up the patterns, breaking my trajectory". He is trying to slow down this movement back in time, messing up the causation by drifting into a new part of the timeline.

This is further reinforced when he says " I jump back around " he is reversing his reverse running to start moving forward. He is seeing things now that he shouldn't see because they didn't happen in his original timeline. He moves through life once again in a blur.

He wants to go back in time and live his life again on a different trajectory in one which he might stay with his love, but he knows that no matter what trajectory he takes destiny will always make sure she "messes" him up.

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Atoms for Peace – Dropped Lyrics 12 years ago
This one has a literal meaning of heartbreak and the feelings that come with it. It seems as if Thom has been through it before. As the love slips away Thom knows the process of grievance and what it feels like before, he doesn't "want it to start".

The whole feel of the album can be linked to TKOL and this sense of wandering that was brought forward with Feral. Feeling lost in the woods stumbling around after loosing love.

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Atoms for Peace – Ingenue Lyrics 12 years ago
"Ingenue" means innocent young woman. I think this song is about Thom exploring an alternate reality where he isn't the legend that he is. Escaping the madness that he has created around him with the genius of his music. The female dancer represents an escape into innocence.

Words like "you got me into this mess so you'll get me out" shows he was innocent before radiohead and wants to be innocent again through this escapist dance.

"The seeds of the dandelion
You blow away in good time
I hope, I pray
If I'm not there now physically
I'm always before you
Come what may"

This is the idea that this fantasy of being innocent will never come true and blows away in good time. Thom is realizing it will never happen, not "physically" so he will always be first to face the world, but he always has this thought to fall back on whatever happens.

"Gone with a touch of your hand
Move through the moment
Though it betrays
Transformations, jackals and flames"

This part of the verse demonstrates Thoms view of what will happen once he has stopped thinking about this other reality. When he goes back there are transformations, jackals and flames which reinforces how comforting the fantasy of being a Ingenue is compared to reality.

Overall the song is about Thom confronting his fear of fame, through the alternate reality of being an Ingenue, and dealing with it in an artistic and poetic way.

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Kid Cudi – Hyyerr (feat. Chip tha Ripper) Lyrics 13 years ago
Its an easy "Sunday Morning and the kids are going to school" what kind of kid goes to school on a Sunday unless its Sunday School with the church.

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Radiohead – 15 Step Lyrics 13 years ago
How come I end up where I started
(How come I will die just as I was dead before I was born)
How come I end up where I belong
(How come I am alive now)
Won't take my eyes off the ball again
(I will try a realise what life is about and get away from the systems of society)
You reel me out then you cut the string
(But in the end life always reels you out in hope and cuts the line with death)

You used to be alright
What happened?
(You used to be alive why did you die)

Did the cat get your tongue
Did your string come undone
(Did your life get cut off so you will never speak again)

One by one
One by one
It comes to us all
It's as soft as your pillow
(One by one everyone on earth will die, but death is peaceful as falling asleep on a soft pillow)

You used to be alright
What happened?
Etcetera etcetera
(Etc to show this process happens over and over to us all)

Facts for whatever
( Even if you do realise what life is about it doesn't even matter)

Fifteen steps
Then a shear drop
(Because its 15 steps, either onto the gallows or 15 steps to wisdom which ever one you get to they both end up in a shear drop)

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