This song got me on to 1984, it's quite obvious when you read the book through. It seems to allude that we're turning to an Orwellian world. This is basically an essay, so read on if you're interested :P
In Britain cameras are all over the street, like hidden telescreens. People can be followed by satellites. Sounds like that loss of privacy you see in the book.
George Bush Jr was being projected over the world in 02/03, promising to avenge 9/11, almost like Big Brother since he has so much indirect influence over the rest of the world, not just over the USA. And I do believe he cheated his position, perhaps his family moving to make a faulty voting system, to continue the royalty. There's a sense we have no control. And if people like Bush can get into the top seat without public approval, we don't have a choice.
Thom Yorke may be British, but he noticed it's a big sign that the world is heading to an Orwellian dystopia. We need to pay attention. If we don't, a totalitarian government may rise behind the mist unopposed. We may wake up one day and find that thinking against the ruling class is a crime, and find we have Thought Police. Then again, why was John Lennon asassinated when he was a man for world peace and equality? 'Imagine'? ARE YOU SUCH A DREAMER- TO PUT THE WORLD TO RIGHTS? Some people didn't like his criticism of the class system. Think of Goldstein's book in 1984. The ruling class was seeing world peace and equality as something to be avoided. That may be why he was killed, and I think Radiohead referenced this. The first 2 verses are doublethink, with the fear in the mind-control phrase 'TWO AND TWO MAKE FIVE' leaking out the tiniest bit. The sandbags and April showers may be the destruction of the planet by mankind, which may work in favour of the government, keeping the middle and lower class in fear of the end.
It's the devils way now
There's no way out
You can scream and you can shout
It's too late now
This is the point beyond no return, where none can stop the new world order, where nothing but the most cataclysmic natural disaster (i.e. dinosaur-like extinction event) will bring it down. Everything after 'paying attention' is the experience in 1984, how it's so hard to keep incriminating thoughts back (Trying to sing along-but like flies the buggers keep coming back). 'But i'm not' is reference to the Ministry of Love. 'You do not exist'.
'Hail to the thief' is back in 03, where George Bush was loved by so much while he was in a position he probably didn't earn. How a lot of people loved him blindly, thinking it was patriotism. Kinda like Big Brother.
'Don't question my authority or put me in the box/dock, cause i'm not'
You can't easily push George Bush from his position until his two terms run out. Of course, Obama's there now. But Thom may have been saying Bush shouldn't be re-elected in 2004, because Bush isn't as decent as he says he is.
'Go and tell the king that the sky is falling in
When it's not
maybe not'
Potentially a 9/11 reference, but more than likely the asteroid strike that might be the only thing to bring down the Party. I think 'Where I End And You Begin (The Sky Is Falling In)' follows this, about the end of the Party, the end of thought control and the end of Big Brother.
'X will mark the place, like the parting of the waves, like a house falling into the sea'
'I will eat you alive' Waves of fire and water, eating up and destroying each Ministry and killing every Party member.
'There will be no more lies' the end of the Thought Police, end of reality control, and the survivors free to think.
Just goes to show that intelligence does NOT translate to an understanding of the political process or an honesty, for that matter. First, let's put your little mind to rest. The hanging chads had to do with three Florida counties. The three election supervisors for those counties were (2) democrats and (1) Independent. Two of the supervisors were later fired because they had declined training on using the new system in place.(Unlike you, I don't get my news from MSNBC, whom P.E.J. rated the most biased in the 2008 and 2012 elections or from similiar "news" sites like CNN, NBC,...
Just goes to show that intelligence does NOT translate to an understanding of the political process or an honesty, for that matter. First, let's put your little mind to rest. The hanging chads had to do with three Florida counties. The three election supervisors for those counties were (2) democrats and (1) Independent. Two of the supervisors were later fired because they had declined training on using the new system in place.(Unlike you, I don't get my news from MSNBC, whom P.E.J. rated the most biased in the 2008 and 2012 elections or from similiar "news" sites like CNN, NBC, The NY Times, or even Fox, for that matter.) Second, do you know how many innocents have been killed by Obama's drones, and how the media has pretty much silenced his brazen activity to protect him (although one usually unprofessional and liberal outlet has requested the information multiple times). And while we're on the subject of the WORST president in U.S. History (hello...U.S. household incomes have dropped 4 straight years, and since 2010 U.S. jobs have gone overseas at recrod numbers), how do you like his no tax hike on the middle class. LOL...check your paycheck and "read his lips." If he were Bush, the media would report it 1,000x over. Until quacks like you stop being liberal sheep (or conserative sheep) and realize that there is little difference between the two Washington parties, the American Dream will continue to die. Most musicians are high school drop outs OR less-than-academically successful, well-read people. And when they put their politics in music, they sound like the idiots they are. Just because they can make music and make money does not mean they are bright. It's kinda like intellectual college profs who know NOTHING about fiscal matters, politics, and who are extremely dishonest when they post on such topics....Just saying... (BTW, I make no apologies for not being passive and classy. I am neither and don't give a shit about impressing anyone.)
This song got me on to 1984, it's quite obvious when you read the book through. It seems to allude that we're turning to an Orwellian world. This is basically an essay, so read on if you're interested :P
In Britain cameras are all over the street, like hidden telescreens. People can be followed by satellites. Sounds like that loss of privacy you see in the book.
George Bush Jr was being projected over the world in 02/03, promising to avenge 9/11, almost like Big Brother since he has so much indirect influence over the rest of the world, not just over the USA. And I do believe he cheated his position, perhaps his family moving to make a faulty voting system, to continue the royalty. There's a sense we have no control. And if people like Bush can get into the top seat without public approval, we don't have a choice.
Thom Yorke may be British, but he noticed it's a big sign that the world is heading to an Orwellian dystopia. We need to pay attention. If we don't, a totalitarian government may rise behind the mist unopposed. We may wake up one day and find that thinking against the ruling class is a crime, and find we have Thought Police. Then again, why was John Lennon asassinated when he was a man for world peace and equality? 'Imagine'? ARE YOU SUCH A DREAMER- TO PUT THE WORLD TO RIGHTS? Some people didn't like his criticism of the class system. Think of Goldstein's book in 1984. The ruling class was seeing world peace and equality as something to be avoided. That may be why he was killed, and I think Radiohead referenced this. The first 2 verses are doublethink, with the fear in the mind-control phrase 'TWO AND TWO MAKE FIVE' leaking out the tiniest bit. The sandbags and April showers may be the destruction of the planet by mankind, which may work in favour of the government, keeping the middle and lower class in fear of the end.
It's the devils way now There's no way out You can scream and you can shout It's too late now
This is the point beyond no return, where none can stop the new world order, where nothing but the most cataclysmic natural disaster (i.e. dinosaur-like extinction event) will bring it down. Everything after 'paying attention' is the experience in 1984, how it's so hard to keep incriminating thoughts back (Trying to sing along-but like flies the buggers keep coming back). 'But i'm not' is reference to the Ministry of Love. 'You do not exist'.
'Hail to the thief' is back in 03, where George Bush was loved by so much while he was in a position he probably didn't earn. How a lot of people loved him blindly, thinking it was patriotism. Kinda like Big Brother.
'Don't question my authority or put me in the box/dock, cause i'm not'
You can't easily push George Bush from his position until his two terms run out. Of course, Obama's there now. But Thom may have been saying Bush shouldn't be re-elected in 2004, because Bush isn't as decent as he says he is.
'Go and tell the king that the sky is falling in When it's not maybe not' Potentially a 9/11 reference, but more than likely the asteroid strike that might be the only thing to bring down the Party. I think 'Where I End And You Begin (The Sky Is Falling In)' follows this, about the end of the Party, the end of thought control and the end of Big Brother. 'X will mark the place, like the parting of the waves, like a house falling into the sea' 'I will eat you alive' Waves of fire and water, eating up and destroying each Ministry and killing every Party member. 'There will be no more lies' the end of the Thought Police, end of reality control, and the survivors free to think.
Just goes to show that intelligence does NOT translate to an understanding of the political process or an honesty, for that matter. First, let's put your little mind to rest. The hanging chads had to do with three Florida counties. The three election supervisors for those counties were (2) democrats and (1) Independent. Two of the supervisors were later fired because they had declined training on using the new system in place.(Unlike you, I don't get my news from MSNBC, whom P.E.J. rated the most biased in the 2008 and 2012 elections or from similiar "news" sites like CNN, NBC,...
Just goes to show that intelligence does NOT translate to an understanding of the political process or an honesty, for that matter. First, let's put your little mind to rest. The hanging chads had to do with three Florida counties. The three election supervisors for those counties were (2) democrats and (1) Independent. Two of the supervisors were later fired because they had declined training on using the new system in place.(Unlike you, I don't get my news from MSNBC, whom P.E.J. rated the most biased in the 2008 and 2012 elections or from similiar "news" sites like CNN, NBC, The NY Times, or even Fox, for that matter.) Second, do you know how many innocents have been killed by Obama's drones, and how the media has pretty much silenced his brazen activity to protect him (although one usually unprofessional and liberal outlet has requested the information multiple times). And while we're on the subject of the WORST president in U.S. History (hello...U.S. household incomes have dropped 4 straight years, and since 2010 U.S. jobs have gone overseas at recrod numbers), how do you like his no tax hike on the middle class. LOL...check your paycheck and "read his lips." If he were Bush, the media would report it 1,000x over. Until quacks like you stop being liberal sheep (or conserative sheep) and realize that there is little difference between the two Washington parties, the American Dream will continue to die. Most musicians are high school drop outs OR less-than-academically successful, well-read people. And when they put their politics in music, they sound like the idiots they are. Just because they can make music and make money does not mean they are bright. It's kinda like intellectual college profs who know NOTHING about fiscal matters, politics, and who are extremely dishonest when they post on such topics....Just saying... (BTW, I make no apologies for not being passive and classy. I am neither and don't give a shit about impressing anyone.)