This song made me cry when I first heard it. I love it. To me...best song off the The King of Limbs album. I love how the "trills" of the keyboard make it sound like fingertips skimming water. And the piano just make it sound so ethereal and like it's late...under the night sky. I haven't fully digested it's lyrics fully to understand the meaning. I'm only going by initial emotion of the melody mostly. Just a lonely introspective kind of song. But my first thoughts of the lyrics are it sounds like a person that feels like they want to end their life because of tremendous guilt because they've hurt people in the past. "Slight of hand" seems like he's been a liar to me. "No one gets hurt" to me implies he has hurt people and this act won't hurt anyone at all. He just wants to slip away quietly...no one has to be hurt any more."Just dragonflies flying to the side" I mean...it's like he's concerned about the bugs getting in the way of his "jump"? I am probably way off. "The water's clear...and innocent" seems like a metaphor for him...he wants to HAVE clarity and innocence. And emersing oneself in water has always been symbolic of washing away ones sins. Just seems that the scene is all so inviting because of it's sereneness ...almost seductive & floating/sinking.
I love how one tends to love Radiohead songs even more when you sit and let the lyrics soak in.
I hear this song as just an image of a quiet moment, not necessarily a suicidal one. Maybe a memory from childhood, jumping off the end of a pier. The image recalls a time when we were more pure, less flawed. The song works for me without reading in the depression. The childhood image can be powerful, beautiful, and breathtaking without the despair. Great song.
I hear this song as just an image of a quiet moment, not necessarily a suicidal one. Maybe a memory from childhood, jumping off the end of a pier. The image recalls a time when we were more pure, less flawed. The song works for me without reading in the depression. The childhood image can be powerful, beautiful, and breathtaking without the despair. Great song.
This song made me cry when I first heard it. I love it. To me...best song off the The King of Limbs album. I love how the "trills" of the keyboard make it sound like fingertips skimming water. And the piano just make it sound so ethereal and like it's late...under the night sky. I haven't fully digested it's lyrics fully to understand the meaning. I'm only going by initial emotion of the melody mostly. Just a lonely introspective kind of song. But my first thoughts of the lyrics are it sounds like a person that feels like they want to end their life because of tremendous guilt because they've hurt people in the past. "Slight of hand" seems like he's been a liar to me. "No one gets hurt" to me implies he has hurt people and this act won't hurt anyone at all. He just wants to slip away quietly...no one has to be hurt any more."Just dragonflies flying to the side" I mean...it's like he's concerned about the bugs getting in the way of his "jump"? I am probably way off. "The water's clear...and innocent" seems like a metaphor for him...he wants to HAVE clarity and innocence. And emersing oneself in water has always been symbolic of washing away ones sins. Just seems that the scene is all so inviting because of it's sereneness ...almost seductive & floating/sinking. I love how one tends to love Radiohead songs even more when you sit and let the lyrics soak in.
I hear this song as just an image of a quiet moment, not necessarily a suicidal one. Maybe a memory from childhood, jumping off the end of a pier. The image recalls a time when we were more pure, less flawed. The song works for me without reading in the depression. The childhood image can be powerful, beautiful, and breathtaking without the despair. Great song.
I hear this song as just an image of a quiet moment, not necessarily a suicidal one. Maybe a memory from childhood, jumping off the end of a pier. The image recalls a time when we were more pure, less flawed. The song works for me without reading in the depression. The childhood image can be powerful, beautiful, and breathtaking without the despair. Great song.
Funny how so many RH songs seem to make people think of suicicde
Funny how so many RH songs seem to make people think of suicicde