| Radiohead – Glass Eyes Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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Unfortunately I think this is a desperately sad song about Thom losing Rachel to her illness. I read it as a metaphorical phonecall as you would make when you've travelled to visit a loved one. Except his loved one is no longer of this earth and he's terrified. Even though the station is somewhere he's been before it looks completely alien as this is the first time he's ever been here in a such a long time without his best friend, his soul mate. His guardian angel who is thinking of him no matter where he is or how he's feeling. Now it is truly just him, alone. No message telling him good job for getting there. No one waiting on the other side to collect him. And now the path is unknown. It's trailed off. He's walking somewhere he hasn't been before and doesn't know where it will take him. But he's mourning too much to really care. Anywhere is better than standing here. The final line, "I feel this love to the core" is just a heartfelt outpouring that unfortunately only seems to happen when you break up with someone or lose them. Where you have his love that you've always had but now there is no one to give it away to. Strangely when one can't give their love away it almost poisons and hurts you to have. A very strange feeling indeed. This is always how I've heard this song. I broke up with my girlfriend of 10 years about a month ago. And I had to move out and leave my job. And I arrived at the station where's my parents live with everything I owned in two bin bags. And I just stood at the busy station entrance. And it was like the world was in fast forward and I was just stood there in normal time. Everyone whizzing past me. And I had no plan. No idea what I do now, now that I have this hole straight through me where she used to reside. And I'm still like it now. The phone doesn't buzz or ring. I sometimes think of things I'd like to say but know that I have no one to say it to anymore. I am completely lost. In a lull in a sea with no winds and no sail. |
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