| Thom Yorke – Dawn Chorus Lyrics | 6 years ago |
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"Dawn Chorus" is in a long line of songs of rebirth and redemption by Radiohead that includes Airbag, Let Down, Lucky, and Pyramid Song. It could be argued, after all, that rebirth and redemption are their major theme, once you've worked your way through the dystopian, late-Capitalist foreground. This latest song, "Dawn Chorus," gestures in the direction of the Christian Eucharist, but quickly abandons it ("Take a little piece, then you break it off / It's a bloody racket"). In my hearing of it, Thom Yorke addresses at least three different women in this song: his mother (who, he specified in a recent BBC interview, lived on a cul-de-sac), his deceased wife, and his new love. In my hearing of it, t's a song of mourning for the first two and a celebration of the third, with a hint of light breaking in. Like so many of his previous songs, affirmation is hard won, but it's there. |
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