Overall about difficult moments of disappointment and vulnerability. Having hope and longing, while remaining optimistic for the future. Encourages the belief that with each new morning there is a chance for things to improve.
The chorus offers a glimmer of optimism and a chance at a resolution and redemption in the future.
Captures the rollercoaster of emotions of feeling lost while loving someone who is not there for you, feeling let down and abandoned while waiting for a lover. Lost with no direction, "Now I'm up in the air with the rain in my hair, Nowhere to go, I can go anywhere"
The bridge shows signs of longing and a plea for companionship. The Lyrics express a desire for authentic connection and the importance of Loving someone just as they are. "Just in passing, I'm not asking. That you be anyone but you”
A self-fulfilling prophecy of endless possibilty
You're born and raised across the street
In algebra, in algebra
The fences that you cannot climb
The sentences that do not rhyme
In all that you can ever change
The one you're looking for
It gets you down
It gets you down
There's no spark
No light in the dark
It gets you down
It gets you down
You travel far
What have you found
That there's no time
There's no time
To analyze
To think things through
To make sense
Like cows in the city
They never looked so pretty
Bad power cuts and blackouts
Sleeping like babies
It gets you down
It gets you down
You're just playing a part
You're just playing a part
You're playing a part
Playing a part
That there's no time
There's no time
To analyze
Analyze
Analyze
You're born and raised across the street
In algebra, in algebra
The fences that you cannot climb
The sentences that do not rhyme
In all that you can ever change
The one you're looking for
It gets you down
It gets you down
There's no spark
No light in the dark
It gets you down
It gets you down
You travel far
What have you found
That there's no time
There's no time
To analyze
To think things through
To make sense
Like cows in the city
They never looked so pretty
Bad power cuts and blackouts
Sleeping like babies
It gets you down
It gets you down
You're just playing a part
You're just playing a part
You're playing a part
Playing a part
That there's no time
There's no time
To analyze
Analyze
Analyze
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Analyse Lyrics as written by Thomas Edward Yorke
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The song seems to follow a pattern of Thom's. He's singing about the idea that there's no higher meaning to life.
"A self fulfilling prophecy..." Seems to suggest that we're using mathematics and scientific examination to tell ourselves exactly what we want to hear: "We can attain a higher knowledge of our world by careful examination, yet there's no limit to how much we can discover."
"In fences that you cannot climb" The fence is a limit placed on our roaming or exploration, and our inability to climb that fence or surpass that limit gives us grounding and context. It makes us feel safe to know our bounds.
"In sentences that do not rhyme" Traditionally, sentences that don't rhyme are taken more seriously than those that do. They supposedly have more gravity and weight to them.
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Now for the chorus: "It gets you down" seems to reference the idea that knowing no boundary and having no expectation of greater context or understanding of life is a truly depressing life to lead. I don't know much about existentialism, but I think this is something related.
"There's no spark..." and "You've traveled far..." seem to be blunt admonishments to give up on trying to understand everything. "There's no time..." suggests that trying to find all this great context and understanding is just a waste of perfectly good hours and years of life.
"By candles in the city" This section seems to provide an alternative to life as we lead it now. When the power goes out in the city, instead of causing ourselves great stress and worry wondering what has happened, and when the power may come back, we should enjoy the chance to see the world in a new light (forgive the pun). "When all the lights are out in the city, we shouldn't be afraid, we should sleep like babies in the natural night.
Then, and I find this pretty interesting (if I'm even right), Thom sings "you're just playing a part, but there's no time to analyse". It seems to me that maybe he's supposed to be softening the blow of this revelation by pretending we're just playing a part in something greater...there's just not time to analyse our role or the great machine.
what do you guys think of this? am I way off?