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”
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Dear wannabepretty, by good you mean pop, at least I'm asuming I love radiohead now, but I hated Pablo Honey, so I find them to be "good" now, as much as you found them to be "good" before sorry
As for the song, I think it's about how we treat the emotion of love, as a society and how it no longer has any connection with a human connection but rather as a means for sexual exploitation. Throughout the entire song, there's a sample of the word "J'aime" ( french for I love) playing in the background. The frequency of the sample quickens throughout the song untill it reaches a climax at the end. One might infer, that the song is a parody of sex, as near the end, the sample is barely recognizable, so as to say that what is left is no longer love, or rather never really was.
This song was on Radiohead TV (The Most Gigantic Lying Mouth of All Time). The piece they did was about a scientist engineering a race dog and putting microchips and whatnot in him. Does that mean anything to anyone?
hey Jove,
where you goin with that gun in your hand?
this song is available on pyramid song
bojangles: do you KNOW that's what it says cos I just can't get that or did you read about it somewhere. I'd love to know.
That video was done by an artist not affiliated with the band, and was probably chosen more for the way it sounded then it's relevance to what was on screen.
This song probably does not mean anything.
it's now known he's singing "little birds in the trees"
Thom sings "Never going to change". You can barely hear it as it's buried so deep in the mix.
does anyone actually remember when Radiohead was good?
They have never stopped, and they started at The Bends (with a few earlier exceptions).<br /> <br /> You probably shouldn't summarise their modern sound in one b-side. Go listen to Amnesiac, or Hail To The Thief, or In Rainbows. Damn good music.