Kid A, kid A
Kid A, kid A
Everything
Everything
Everything
Everything
In its right place
In its right place
In its right place
In its right place
Yesterday I woke up sucking on a lemon
Yesterday I woke up sucking on a lemon
Yesterday I woke up sucking on a lemon
Yesterday I woke up sucking on a lemon
Everything
Everything
Everything
In its right place
In its right place
In its right place
Right place
There are two colors in my head
There are two colors in my head
What is that you tried to say
What is was you tried to say
Tried to say
Tried to say
Tried to say
Tried to say
Everything
Everything
Everything
Kid A, kid A
Everything
Everything
Everything
Everything
In its right place
In its right place
In its right place
In its right place
Yesterday I woke up sucking on a lemon
Yesterday I woke up sucking on a lemon
Yesterday I woke up sucking on a lemon
Yesterday I woke up sucking on a lemon
Everything
Everything
Everything
In its right place
In its right place
In its right place
Right place
There are two colors in my head
There are two colors in my head
What is that you tried to say
What is was you tried to say
Tried to say
Tried to say
Tried to say
Tried to say
Everything
Everything
Everything
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This song is about the conception of a sentient being. I.E. Kid A.
The phrase Everything in it's right place is common parlance for 'two eyes, two legs, four fingers and a thumb on each hand, etc.' In other words 'Kid A' has been brought into the world with no defects/mutations/disabilities.
The sucking a lemon, as already pointed out on this board, is a phrase referring to 'looking miserable'.
What is the first thing newborn babies do?
Why, cry of course! Face like he's sucking a lemon covered then.
There are two colours in my head.
I.E. black and white. As a newborn, Kid A is an innocent. He has no 'grey' concepts or befuddled morals. He is a blank slate without malice, and only the ability to distinguish between things that make him happy 'white' or make him unhappy 'black'.
The part which is most disturbing is the line 'What is that you tried to say.'
This implies that 'Kid A' has developed the first stage of sentience, the ability to understand speech. He is about to have all manner of dubious thoughts and concepts thrust into his open mind, corrupting the innocence therein, and robbing him of his monotonal morality.
Fare thee well Kid A.
God bless you, and all who sail in you.
My only backup for my analogy is this: The soundtrack for Vanilla Sky was chosen pretty carefully, and if you look at the lyrics to most of the songs you will find they all have something to do with plot. Therefore, using a song having to do with dreams (maybe they actually know what this song is about?) would be a good choice.
Oh well, who knows? I could be totally off...
"you weren't hurting anyone, you were only hurting THINGS! And since things couldn't really be hurt,since things felt nothing, and things don't scream or whimper,...there was nothing to tease your conscience later... you were simply cleaning up..."(p.37)
Thom could be relating these "things" to the emotions of kid A, who is, after all , an android, having the inability to feel.
"Everything to its proper place" (p.37)
just a connection...
Yet as you try to question why things aren't the way they should be or why you are not as happy as you could have been, there are domineering tones of "everything in its right place" that come through the obvious experience of living in a world rife with systems and positions and rules for everything.
So you are struggling to break free from convention and yet still not sure of why or how this going to happen..you have just a splinter in your mind that something is not right as things just don't feel right.
And as you begin an introspective search, you find there is a repeating theme of absolutes that your logical mind will always offer in place of your heart's greatest aspiration. In this rumination, you have delved in so deep you are distracted by everything even the inner voice that has tried to say there may be another way out or perhaps you tried to say is an external person or event that has been warning of some kind of foreboding danger while you continue ever deeper in thought.
regardless the dark dangerous tones speak to me of conflict..an internal one in my opinion.
Never feel you lack resource. Never need you lack resource; Never will you lack resource. Never lack RESOURCE.
As we clean. As we clean. As we clean. As we clean. In our braindrain. In our brain, drain. One hour brain drain. our be ranged rain!
Basically I think is about how hard is to put into words your thoughts and feelings. Even more to try to understand what the other people means.
This is about the eternal struggle to find oneself and those rare, lucid moments of clarity when you realize you may be at odds with someone's ideas..even if they are so close to you. Or it may be the alienated feeling when you come to realize you are at odds with everything around you.
Waking up sucking on lemon is waking up with a bad attitude..but it is that sour taste that alerts you something isn't the way it should be.
Everything in its right place is actually IMO, a taunt to describe a view of a totalitarian type culture that can often pervade our day to day lives, government democratic systems and in many other ways. This phrase serves as a threat that may encroach upon our personal freedoms.
There are two colors in my head what was that you tried to say?
Perhaps this is a description of someone who knows they want to think outside the box but are chained in to black
Black or White, 0 or 1, +ve side, or -ve side, there seems to be no gray areas as they continually try to make sense of it all..and the whole time there is this dominating tone ingrained from society "everything in its right place"
So it is a struggle and what is that you tried to say has to do with a person who is trying to hear his own inner voice saying perhaps there is an alternative but is also restricted to following the ideology of "everything in its own place".
Overall, I get the picture that waking up sucking on lemon starts the song which means to show that you have been living life but somehow it is a souring experience and you have now come to realize this on a conscious level.
Yet as you try to question why things aren't the way they should be or why you are not as happy as you could have been, there are domineering tones of "everything in its right place" that come through the obvious experience of living in a world rife with systems and positions and rules for everything.
So you are struggling to break free from convention and yet still not sure of why or how this going to happen..you have just a splinter in your mind that something is not right as things just don't feel right.
And as you begin an introspective search, you find there is a repeating theme of absolutes that your logical mind will always offer in place of your heart's greatest aspiration. In this rumination, you have delved in so deep you are distracted by everything even the inner voice that has tried to say there may be another way out or perhaps you tried to say is an external person or event that has been warning of some kind of foreboding danger while you continue ever deeper in thought.
regardless the dark dangerous tones speak to me of conflict..an internal one in my opinion.