Hello everyone
I haven't received read any of the other interpretations, but
I'd like to add my thoughts about the song.
I think the sound of it is very beautiful, but the lyrics and the strange "snoring" at the end makes it a bit creepy/gloomy (just as most Radiohead songs have a kind of bizarre twist to them, in my opinion).
Well... To me the song is just about someone being a daydreamer but taking it a bit to far and ending up in a psychiatric hospital (I can relate to the first lines where he just talks about daydreaming and how it can go to far). He already wrote about dissociation in earlier songs, I think (for example in How to disappear completely). The thing about dissociation is that you can also do it on purpose, as for example daydreaming too much and ignoring reality too much, cause you don't really want to be here (happens to me a lot).
The white room in the last part of the song reminded me at first of a mental health institution, but I doubt that Thom had been in one himself. Maybe the protagonist of the song is exaggerating the daydreaming to a point of no return.
Buuuuut that's only my interpretation and how I understand the song, it is beautiful but with a hint of alienation, as always.
Maybe it could be a genuinely beautiful song (there are many white rooms with a window, not only in psychiatric buildings), maybe it is meant as an ode to daydreaming. Or maybe it has something to do with politics. I don't know what's going in Thom's mind.
Hello everyone I haven't received read any of the other interpretations, but I'd like to add my thoughts about the song. I think the sound of it is very beautiful, but the lyrics and the strange "snoring" at the end makes it a bit creepy/gloomy (just as most Radiohead songs have a kind of bizarre twist to them, in my opinion).
Well... To me the song is just about someone being a daydreamer but taking it a bit to far and ending up in a psychiatric hospital (I can relate to the first lines where he just talks about daydreaming and how it can go to far). He already wrote about dissociation in earlier songs, I think (for example in How to disappear completely). The thing about dissociation is that you can also do it on purpose, as for example daydreaming too much and ignoring reality too much, cause you don't really want to be here (happens to me a lot). The white room in the last part of the song reminded me at first of a mental health institution, but I doubt that Thom had been in one himself. Maybe the protagonist of the song is exaggerating the daydreaming to a point of no return.
Buuuuut that's only my interpretation and how I understand the song, it is beautiful but with a hint of alienation, as always.
Maybe it could be a genuinely beautiful song (there are many white rooms with a window, not only in psychiatric buildings), maybe it is meant as an ode to daydreaming. Or maybe it has something to do with politics. I don't know what's going in Thom's mind.