Killer Cars

after hearing this song i think about 2 things: 1) i didn't wanna drve my car anymore 2) makes me wanna say "i fuckin' love you" everytime i say goodbye .....

I wish this had made it onto one of the labums one of the best Radiohead songs IMO

Is it possible to state your message without being confrontational?

Yes. Thom is a little wary of cars, as we all should be. He's said something along the lines of "We're just riding on those things, you know. We're not in control of them."

For myself it brings to mind a fear of the way we live our lives, trusting in things that just carry us along without thinking about how we got from point A to point B. We do a lot of things without thinking.

We go to the ATM and expect this box to spit money into our hands because that's just what it does. Hop on the train, and it goes. Press this button, the box turns on and shows us images. That sort of thing. No one stops to think that what you're looking at is tons and tons of tiny points of red, green, and blue light. You're sitting there staring at a box, but if you catch yourself you'll notice that when you're absorbed in what you're watching it's almost like you ignore your peripheral vision. All you see is what's in front of you.

Sorry. That got long-winded. Oh well.

I think this song is literally just about a fear of cars -- Thom Yorke has said in interviews that he hates them and is never quite sure he is controlling the car completely when he is driving, or something to that effect.

It's not a metaphor for death or anything stupid like that. It's about Thom's fear of cars, what else would it be about? Do you all really think every single Radiohead lyric is some kind of metaphor for something?

This song is about the fear of dying any moment before telling someone how you really feel about them. It's also about the fear of death and how the singer plans to fight it when it approaches.

I love the faster version of this song, it certainly shows where Coldplay and Travis may have got some inspiration from : )

this song is about the fear of the demise of an unfinished life. it proves how one day, totally unexpected, something could happen that might alter your life forever, and you might not the option or the time to make things in your life right. dying is scary, but leaving unfinished business or unsaid words behind you is worse.

The accoustic version is awe-inspiring; the passion in Thom's voice as he talks about "all the things I forgot to say" truly haunting.

I think the theme of 'Killer Cars' is the typical Yorke method of using a specific to talk about a general- i.e. talking off death by a car crash is a metaphor for sudden death as a whole.

Download the accoustic version and compare it to the original mix; the accoustic seems more passionate to me.

Is it possible to state your message without being confrontational?

Yes. Thom is a little wary of cars, as we all should be. He's said something along the lines of "We're just riding on those things, you know. We're not in control of them."

For myself it brings to mind a fear of the way we live our lives, trusting in things that just carry us along without thinking about how we got from point A to point B. We do a lot of things without thinking.

We go to the ATM and expect this box to spit money into our hands because that's just what it does. Hop on the train, and it goes. Press this button, the box turns on and shows us images. That sort of thing. No one stops to think that what you're looking at is tons and tons of tiny points of red, green, and blue light. You're sitting there staring at a box, but if you catch yourself you'll notice that when you're absorbed in what you're watching it's almost like you ignore your peripheral vision. All you see is what's in front of you.

Sorry. That got long-winded. Oh well.