| Radiohead – Street Spirit (Fade Out) Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| This song is about grasping existential nihilism, or the belief that there's no objective purpose to life. Thom's simple message is to immerse you soul in love to get through it. | |
| Radiohead – Climbing Up the Walls Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Alright, here's my take. The song is about things from your past that you regret doing and you've tried to stow away and forget about coming back to get you. In this case, I feel it's about a woman who's married and has kids. However, some odd years back, she had an affair with another man. She tried forgetting about it. She tried hiding it. She hated and regretted what she did, but it's too late. He's come back for her, and he's climbing up the walls. She knows he's there, but she's so afraid of how he'll wreck her life, marriage, and family. That's a horror that's truly terrifying, as the lyrics and especially sound personify. So, the moral of the story is: Don't do something you'll later regret, for it'll always come climbing up the walls to get you in time. |
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| Radiohead – Idioteque Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Idioteque is the song that got me hooked on Radiohead. Though it's no longer one of my absolute favorite songs, I do like it very much. Anyhow, after putting some thought into it here's what I came up with. Idioteque is about panic in a completely unexpected situation, with that situation being the sinking of the Titanic. The song was written just a year or two after the movie came out, so it would have been a prevalent idea then. "Who's in a bunker, who's in a bunker?" This refers to the strength of the ship, a safe haven on the icy Atlantic. "Unsinkable". "Women and children first, and the children first, and the children." This refers to who was granted primary access to the lifeboats. The narrator begins to experience traumatic schizophrenia, thus the repeated phrases. "I laugh until my head comes off, I swallow 'til I burst." The narrator tries to laugh it off like it's not happening, and then swallows it for what it really is. "I have seen too much, I haven't seen enough, you haven't seen it." The narrator's life flashes before his eyes. First he say's he's seen too much, which indicates thinking of the bad in the world, then states he hasn't seen enough. This indicates he's thinking of all he still wishes to see and do in his lifetime. Lastly, you haven't seen it indicates the narrator telling someone else of the incredible things he's seen in his life. "Here I'm alive, everything all of the time." The narrator realizes he's still alive, and that he should make the most of his last hours. "Ice age coming, ice age coming. Let me hear both sides...Throw it in the fire..." Here he's looking at the effects of the 31 degree water and chilly air temperatures. Let me hear both sides indicates there's some conflict about what to do. He then says throw it in the fire, which translates to "Find a way to get them warm." "We're not scaremongering, this is really happening..." This represents the narrator again coming to reality. This line translates into "I'm not kidding, this ship is about to sink." "Mobiles squerking, mobiles chirping 'Take the money run...'" The narrator gets frustrated with the people too worried about saving their things than the lives of thousands of people. After this, the reality again hits the narrator, much worse this time. It leaves him repeating nonsensical phrases in a trance from taking in all his surroundings. |
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