The Gloaming. (Softly Open Our Mouths in the Cold.) Lyrics

Lyric discussion by vusi 

Cover art for The Gloaming. (Softly Open Our Mouths in the Cold.) lyrics by Radiohead

I love its album version too

the part when he says when the walls bend with your breathin,

the feeling to me is when you're in a room or somewhere like that, and the air in the room is so depressing, and isolated, and you feel bounded somehow, it will feel like you are trapped in. Kinda claustrophobic. So much that walls bend when you breathe in. it is so in your mind. Like there's no air left. No air from outside.

and kind of the creativity block maybe. or an emotional block. or when u feel the world is all coming on you, weighing over you..

I can relate best to this song when I'm in a depressive mood, and I want to explode, I'm the reason why the alarms should be ringing.

:) though its obvious it has political meaning too. I agree with Thom. This is the gloaming. When you kill&use&abuse people that are innocent, it will bring the bad. It will let the nightly creatures out of their dens.

And the way the world is going, it will be the gloaming. If noone cares..

I like the hardness of the song. And the "hitting" kinda feeling of the rhytms. hitting and bouncing back. like to a wall.

And the frenzy feeling.

I also liked all the above comments.