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| Idlewild – There's Glory In Your Story Lyrics
| 23 years ago
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If you're an idlewild fan and you havent yet heard this song, get it a.s.ap because this ranks among their best and im not sure how it didnt get onto the album. |
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| Radiohead – Climbing Up the Walls Lyrics
| 23 years ago
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I think, once you know that it relates to the Mental Hospital Thom used to work in, this is one of the least cryptic radiohead songs. The UK government programme referred to above is called 'Care in the Community' and as far as I know it is still running today. It has been extremely controversial with a number of very high profile cases where care in the community patients have gone psycho and murdered people- one killed a random commuter on the London underground I recall. I see this song as being about the thin veneer of civilisation; that deep seated fear of the unknown that modern society does its best to distract you from with rockstars, blockbuster movies and football games- but not if you live next to a mental hospital or an institution for rehabilitated sex offenders. |
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| Radiohead – Everything in Its Right Place Lyrics
| 23 years ago
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This song, in my view, is specifically about the human condition. The two main opposing metaphors, sucking the lemon and the two colours highlight a common blight and a common desire. Its the awful bitterness of waking into a banal and impossibly complicated world contrasted with a desire for easy answers, for black and white solutions in our problems. In reality the two colours in our heads just dont fit the world around us- and that causes bitterness. Its probably one of the most powerful of all the radiohead songs for its spineshivering musical composition as much as its lyrical beauty. We all yearn for everything to be in its right place- this song is about our longing for contentment. |
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