Don't EVER expect Radiohead to be too shallow. I think this is more than him just not wanting to get old.
At first it seems so, but then the last verse reveals that he is talking to a woman. He realizes that since he loves this woman, he is gonna become hardened and bitter since she is leaving him.
He doesn't mean getting old in years, but rather, changing as he goes on into his future since he had to leave this woman behind. 'Getting old' means letting go of fanciful love and becoming hardened. That's why he wants to be reminded that he kissed her once and that he 'really meant it' when he did.
Talking shit is saying that love isn't real, and/or that he never loved her (or anyone). He says that if he becomes THAT hardened that he wants someone to 'smash out his brains'
So, if he gets old (hardened) he wants her to play this song to him so he can remember that he wasn't always like that.
The fact that he wants her to play him the song over the phone might mean that he knows that she is going far, far away, never to return to him.
Don't EVER expect Radiohead to be too shallow. I think this is more than him just not wanting to get old.
At first it seems so, but then the last verse reveals that he is talking to a woman. He realizes that since he loves this woman, he is gonna become hardened and bitter since she is leaving him.
He doesn't mean getting old in years, but rather, changing as he goes on into his future since he had to leave this woman behind. 'Getting old' means letting go of fanciful love and becoming hardened. That's why he wants to be reminded that he kissed her once and that he 'really meant it' when he did.
Talking shit is saying that love isn't real, and/or that he never loved her (or anyone). He says that if he becomes THAT hardened that he wants someone to 'smash out his brains'
So, if he gets old (hardened) he wants her to play this song to him so he can remember that he wasn't always like that.
The fact that he wants her to play him the song over the phone might mean that he knows that she is going far, far away, never to return to him.