Just the most heartbreaking song. If the first cloned human that's supposedly perfect commits suicide, what does that say about us? There are no good answers to the question, and Thom Yorke prophesizes whoever that first cloned baby is, has or will die early.
"Red wine and sleeping pills, help me get back to your arms" mixing substances is a common suicide technique. Someone the cloned child really cares about has died and it's decided to jump straight into the afterlife to see them again. "Cheap sex and sad films, help me get where I belong" instantly shatters my heart every time, society needs the cloned child, so it wonders if it should just dive into escapism to deal with the loss of their loved one. "I think you're crazy, maybe" modern life tends to make people go crazy in some way, (see Optimistic, In Limbo, and Idioteque) whether they learn nobody has their back and they're being mined for a buck or raised to kill people in another country just so one day those two nations will nuke each other, or they just collapse into utter confusion and make themselves a dream world to stay in to everyone elses' chagrin. "Stop sending letters, letters always get burned it's not like the movies, they fed us on little white lies." the cloned child isolates themselves, they burn letters asking for their word back. They've become disillusioned with the promise of a good life from companies and governments. "(maybe) I will see you again in the next life." While it's not guaranteed, the cloned child goes all in and banks on the possibility that they have a soul and there's something after, and the possibility that their loved one also has a soul and they can be close again in whatever's after Earth. So, they follow through with plan A; suicide. "Beautiful angel pulled apart at birth limbless and helpless I can't even recognize you." Thom Yorke cut this verse out of the Kid A version, probably for time, but maybe also because if you weren't completely shattered already, this'll do the trick. This verse may be from the loved one's perspective, if they could see the cloned child. The world has taken this perfect baby and gutted it into something pained and paralyzed, and is that not what's happened to all of us? People say 'mother nature' but she is a very abusive parent.
Fuck you and thank you, Radiohead. I'm 99% sure you keep a vial of tears that you rub on your face before all five/six/seven (Nigel and Stanley might not) of you go to sleep. Then again, I've seen the Amnesiac promotional flyer and you all looked nocturnal in it.
Just the most heartbreaking song. If the first cloned human that's supposedly perfect commits suicide, what does that say about us? There are no good answers to the question, and Thom Yorke prophesizes whoever that first cloned baby is, has or will die early.
"Red wine and sleeping pills, help me get back to your arms" mixing substances is a common suicide technique. Someone the cloned child really cares about has died and it's decided to jump straight into the afterlife to see them again. "Cheap sex and sad films, help me get where I belong" instantly shatters my heart every time, society needs the cloned child, so it wonders if it should just dive into escapism to deal with the loss of their loved one. "I think you're crazy, maybe" modern life tends to make people go crazy in some way, (see Optimistic, In Limbo, and Idioteque) whether they learn nobody has their back and they're being mined for a buck or raised to kill people in another country just so one day those two nations will nuke each other, or they just collapse into utter confusion and make themselves a dream world to stay in to everyone elses' chagrin. "Stop sending letters, letters always get burned it's not like the movies, they fed us on little white lies." the cloned child isolates themselves, they burn letters asking for their word back. They've become disillusioned with the promise of a good life from companies and governments. "(maybe) I will see you again in the next life." While it's not guaranteed, the cloned child goes all in and banks on the possibility that they have a soul and there's something after, and the possibility that their loved one also has a soul and they can be close again in whatever's after Earth. So, they follow through with plan A; suicide. "Beautiful angel pulled apart at birth limbless and helpless I can't even recognize you." Thom Yorke cut this verse out of the Kid A version, probably for time, but maybe also because if you weren't completely shattered already, this'll do the trick. This verse may be from the loved one's perspective, if they could see the cloned child. The world has taken this perfect baby and gutted it into something pained and paralyzed, and is that not what's happened to all of us? People say 'mother nature' but she is a very abusive parent.
Fuck you and thank you, Radiohead. I'm 99% sure you keep a vial of tears that you rub on your face before all five/six/seven (Nigel and Stanley might not) of you go to sleep. Then again, I've seen the Amnesiac promotional flyer and you all looked nocturnal in it.