| Radiohead – Creep Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| Some chick I knew in high school said this song was about me. She thought she was a creep... and I kinda agreed with her on that. | |
| Radiohead – Electioneering Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Yr showing yr youth. This song was written in the mid 90's. Gay marriage wasn't even a thing then. I mean really, people still wore condoms because they were scared of gay plague. This song is about the failings of the democratic systems in the west to keep private interest dollars out of the election process. It is about how the candidates take data from focus groups and go on TV (no one used the internet to get elected then) and sell the public's ideas back to them so that they can get elected and then do what ever they want to do or what ever they are paid to do; which has nothing to do with what the public wants or needs them to do. |
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| Radiohead – Polyethylene (Parts 1 & 2) Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I'm sorry but I have to disagree. Electioneering is about the failings of democracy and liberalism to bring us a more liberated world, and how democracy and liberalism have instead trapped us in a false vision of freedom. It's pretty much the thesis statement of the album. Also at the time; pre 9/11, pre Bush 43, the neocons lead by Fukuyama were going around saying that democracy and liberalism had created a world where war would never happen again and that freedom and democracy would sew prosperity all over the world. The last 12 years have shown how false that notion was. Electioneering shit on that idea in the mid 90s! Polyethylene while a wonderful song, expresses feelings that were well represented by other songs on the album. Electioneering brings to the table a face, an icon to direct the emptiness and despair that the rest of the album's atmosphere creates. It gets to the root of the problem. |
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| Radiohead – Pearly Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I agree with yr analysis, but they got it right it is "Darling hurts me". The song is about hegemony by the west. At the time it was shock treatment in the former Yugoslavia and Southeast Asia. White washed faces, always sounds to me like white washed fences from Tom Sawyer; a reference to American Exceptionalism. The city upon a Hill, as both JFK and Reagan have called America. |
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| Radiohead – Packt Like Sardines in a Crushd Tin Box Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| This song is about the feeling you get when yr stuck in traffic or packed into a subway car going to some shite job that you hate and your dead end in your career and you have a punk boss that lives fr this shite job and yr in debt because you bought a home and you still owe on the college loans you took out to get this shite job that yr waiting in traffic or packed into a subway car to get to. You just really hate how unreasonable this life is being to you, being a very reasonable man yrself. | |
| Radiohead – Alligators in New York Sewers Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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This title is the original title that was on the bootlegs when Radiohead played it live in the time between Ok Computer and the official release on Com Lag where it achieved the title Fog. This song is a parent's point of view, lamenting his child's loss of innocence. The first stanza is reminiscing the innocence of his/her child's childhood. The second is lamenting the child's fall from innocence. The child may or may not have been brought up in a ruff NY neighborhood. Fog represents memories. |
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| Radiohead – Morning Bell Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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This song is about a kid that is freed from the drama of his parents separating by the beginning of the school day. If you can't grasp that and this is about capitalism or some other bullshit to you, I'm telling you now you need to go out and live yr life, seriously. It's that simple. |
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