Staircase Lyrics

Lyric discussion by deviant5 

Cover art for Staircase lyrics by Radiohead

I think this song is talking about an old relationship that Thom cannot forget.

"I walk down the staircase - Magnetic pull". Thom can't resist meeting her again, and wants her to come back. "The pot is full - Of secrets to be told". Thom wanted to know her better. It was such a short relationship, Thom doesn't want to go back to the "other place", a lonely, gloomy place. He feels like he is missing something. I'm not really sure how to explain it really (since I'm a dumbass 13 year old lol), a complex way of singing about love being an emotion - a jigsaw fitting the rest of the puzzle.

I adore this song, it beats TKOL by a million miles, like Supercollider and The Butcher. Just brilliant.

I am completely in agreement with deviant5. I am surprised you are only 13 and you are no dumbass darling very insightful. Anyway, when I first heard the song I had to hear it again to try to make sense of it.

I do think that he is missing someone; someone he cant forget and that he cant fight the pull this person has on him. He is probably in love with this person. He wants to take him/her away? to be with him? Out of orbit- he feels out of place? everywhere he is? he feels that he doesnt...

"He wants to take him/her away?"

Quote, "Send in the chopper-"

I think you're right about that. ;)

Glad to know we agree in the way we interpret this song lol... maybe we are making too much of it.