A night out at the dance club, and there comes the point where you make that so-called connection with someone else. And despite the alcohol, flashy lights, loud music and the smoky haze, you tell yourself there is indeed a connection and all these thoughts and temptations run through your mind. From the male's perspective, he's trying to inconspicuously make his way to his chosen female. Success: She's responding, and after she's decided that her male is acceptable, he keeps making his move. It's a struggle because "the whole place is on a mission," where the goal is pure sex, but he's getting closer at achieving his goal. He just has to pretend for the sake of his female. However, he encounters a bump on the road....His girl is drifting away, maybe to another man on a similar mission? Yes...
Then it hits him. They're all playing a game in that disco, and the chances of him winning are slim. Why can't he ever win? Losing is his constant nightmare that he just can't seem to wish away. As he's left on his own in the dark, crowded club, his early delusions of a connection have come full circle; the jigsaw pieces of his mind have fallen into place: He never had a chance.
Pretty much this. It puzzles me how some see a love story in here. The jigsaw pieces are NOT falling into place to suggest that the narrator and his romantic interest are a match made in heaven or soul-mates or anything of the sort. He never had a shot and this song is basically an expression of his isolation and loneliness. Have you known Yorke to do any other type of song? (I'm honestly struggling to think of a song in which Radiohead's done some innocent love song; there's always an undertone that prevents any of their music from becoming...
Pretty much this. It puzzles me how some see a love story in here. The jigsaw pieces are NOT falling into place to suggest that the narrator and his romantic interest are a match made in heaven or soul-mates or anything of the sort. He never had a shot and this song is basically an expression of his isolation and loneliness. Have you known Yorke to do any other type of song? (I'm honestly struggling to think of a song in which Radiohead's done some innocent love song; there's always an undertone that prevents any of their music from becoming outright superficially "happy").
A night out at the dance club, and there comes the point where you make that so-called connection with someone else. And despite the alcohol, flashy lights, loud music and the smoky haze, you tell yourself there is indeed a connection and all these thoughts and temptations run through your mind. From the male's perspective, he's trying to inconspicuously make his way to his chosen female. Success: She's responding, and after she's decided that her male is acceptable, he keeps making his move. It's a struggle because "the whole place is on a mission," where the goal is pure sex, but he's getting closer at achieving his goal. He just has to pretend for the sake of his female. However, he encounters a bump on the road....His girl is drifting away, maybe to another man on a similar mission? Yes...
Then it hits him. They're all playing a game in that disco, and the chances of him winning are slim. Why can't he ever win? Losing is his constant nightmare that he just can't seem to wish away. As he's left on his own in the dark, crowded club, his early delusions of a connection have come full circle; the jigsaw pieces of his mind have fallen into place: He never had a chance.
Pretty much this. It puzzles me how some see a love story in here. The jigsaw pieces are NOT falling into place to suggest that the narrator and his romantic interest are a match made in heaven or soul-mates or anything of the sort. He never had a shot and this song is basically an expression of his isolation and loneliness. Have you known Yorke to do any other type of song? (I'm honestly struggling to think of a song in which Radiohead's done some innocent love song; there's always an undertone that prevents any of their music from becoming...
Pretty much this. It puzzles me how some see a love story in here. The jigsaw pieces are NOT falling into place to suggest that the narrator and his romantic interest are a match made in heaven or soul-mates or anything of the sort. He never had a shot and this song is basically an expression of his isolation and loneliness. Have you known Yorke to do any other type of song? (I'm honestly struggling to think of a song in which Radiohead's done some innocent love song; there's always an undertone that prevents any of their music from becoming outright superficially "happy").
You nailed it!
You nailed it!
I just heard this recently. I think you explain it the best!
I just heard this recently. I think you explain it the best!
Nuclearheadache89: House of Cards?
Nuclearheadache89: House of Cards?