I do not understand how people can start their analysis and not talk about the tone. The voice is of one of a devastated man, who has gone through serious heavy shit and he's begging for help, begging help to the Karma Police, the Police of the Soul.
He complains about a man, who talks in numbers, maybe a money-focused capitalistic prick, buzzes like a fridge, like a detuned radio, talks lots of bullshit, its a fake person and an asshole.
The he complains about a girl, I don't think the hitler hairdo is a bout her looks, people, its calling her a nazi, a schizophrenic control freak who is just a horrible person and does horrible things that is making him feel ill, and "we have crashed on her party", meaning we have figured her out, all her fakeness and bullshit and all her wrongdoings.
So then he addresses them, "this is what you get when you mess with us", we figured you out shitty man and shitty girl, and you are being reported to the Karma Police, good luck.
Then he has a last outcry for help to the Karma Police, telling them how bad things have been for him, how much he has suffered and struggled, how he has done everything it was in his hands, its being pushed to his limits of mental sanity, but he is is still on the payroll, he is still a target for this two cunts.
So the theme here is fake people, fake people that manipulate, lie and do awful horrible things to the extent that it can make one good person to the verge of total collapse, and the need for a Karma Police, a universal law enforcement force who brings Justice for the crimes of the Soul.
@Boris Talavera I think you nailed it, :) Thom even stated it himself that its about meeting with crappy people who want to use you, plenty of them in the music industry. The guy is most probably a wheeler dealer money dude and the girl is most probably some kind of professional image maker and forcing the band into her idea of what looks cool and will sell more records ect. Radiohead were pretty burnt out from endless touring when they wrote the songs for “ok computer” and they had enough of being told what they needed to be by...
@Boris Talavera I think you nailed it, :) Thom even stated it himself that its about meeting with crappy people who want to use you, plenty of them in the music industry. The guy is most probably a wheeler dealer money dude and the girl is most probably some kind of professional image maker and forcing the band into her idea of what looks cool and will sell more records ect. Radiohead were pretty burnt out from endless touring when they wrote the songs for “ok computer” and they had enough of being told what they needed to be by the record industry heads so they went there own way. “For a minute there I lost myself” is liberating because they will no longer be told what to do but will now command their own ship and sail where ever they like and thats exactly what they have been doing ever since.
I do not understand how people can start their analysis and not talk about the tone. The voice is of one of a devastated man, who has gone through serious heavy shit and he's begging for help, begging help to the Karma Police, the Police of the Soul.
He complains about a man, who talks in numbers, maybe a money-focused capitalistic prick, buzzes like a fridge, like a detuned radio, talks lots of bullshit, its a fake person and an asshole.
The he complains about a girl, I don't think the hitler hairdo is a bout her looks, people, its calling her a nazi, a schizophrenic control freak who is just a horrible person and does horrible things that is making him feel ill, and "we have crashed on her party", meaning we have figured her out, all her fakeness and bullshit and all her wrongdoings.
So then he addresses them, "this is what you get when you mess with us", we figured you out shitty man and shitty girl, and you are being reported to the Karma Police, good luck.
Then he has a last outcry for help to the Karma Police, telling them how bad things have been for him, how much he has suffered and struggled, how he has done everything it was in his hands, its being pushed to his limits of mental sanity, but he is is still on the payroll, he is still a target for this two cunts.
So the theme here is fake people, fake people that manipulate, lie and do awful horrible things to the extent that it can make one good person to the verge of total collapse, and the need for a Karma Police, a universal law enforcement force who brings Justice for the crimes of the Soul.
@Boris Talavera I think you nailed it, :) Thom even stated it himself that its about meeting with crappy people who want to use you, plenty of them in the music industry. The guy is most probably a wheeler dealer money dude and the girl is most probably some kind of professional image maker and forcing the band into her idea of what looks cool and will sell more records ect. Radiohead were pretty burnt out from endless touring when they wrote the songs for “ok computer” and they had enough of being told what they needed to be by...
@Boris Talavera I think you nailed it, :) Thom even stated it himself that its about meeting with crappy people who want to use you, plenty of them in the music industry. The guy is most probably a wheeler dealer money dude and the girl is most probably some kind of professional image maker and forcing the band into her idea of what looks cool and will sell more records ect. Radiohead were pretty burnt out from endless touring when they wrote the songs for “ok computer” and they had enough of being told what they needed to be by the record industry heads so they went there own way. “For a minute there I lost myself” is liberating because they will no longer be told what to do but will now command their own ship and sail where ever they like and thats exactly what they have been doing ever since.
@Boris Talavera this is the best explanation
@Boris Talavera this is the best explanation