| | 2+2=5 Lyrics Artist(Band):Radiohead
Are you such a dreamer To put the world to rights? I'll stay home forever Where two and two always makes a five I'll lay down the tracks Sandbag and hide January has April's showers And two and two always makes a five It's the devil's way now There is no way out You can SCREAM and you can shout It is too late now Because... You have not been! Payin' attention Payin' attention Payin' attention Payin' attention You have not been paying attention Payin' attention Payin' attention Payin' attention You have not been paying attention Payin' attention Payin' attention Payin' attention You have not been paying attention Payin' attention Payin' attention Payin' attention oohh I try to sing along But I get it all wrong Cozimnot Cozimnot I swat 'em like flies but like flies the buggers keep coming back NOT But I’m not All hail to the thief All hail to the thief But I'm not But I'm not But I'm not But I'm not Don't question my authority or put me in the box Cozimnot Cozimnot Oh go and tell the king that the sky is falling in When it's not But it's not But it's not Maybe not Maybe not If you find some error in 2+2=5 Lyrics, would you please submit your corrections to me? Thank You. Thanks to Loveday for submitting the lyrics. Review about 2+2=5 What nobody else is mentioning | Reviewer: Ryan | 12/20/09 As said before, its an orwell reference. radiohead is always socially meaningful, but also like to make their tracks very personal. i think that a lot of people are missing a certain undertone that plays through out more than one opening track to radiohead albums. i think this song partially refers to the difficulty of well... creating an album. before you jump on me about this, read the lyrics. it can clearly be read into that the band is frustrated at its inability to create the same magic that existed in ok computer. this theme is easily read in the opening track to kid a (everything in its right place) and maybe a bit less obvious but still present in the opening track to in raibows (15 step) everything in its right place offers a purposely false assurance that while the band once did not understand how to create another album, they finally broke through the hump and are now in a good place. 2+2=5 offers a renewed frustration over the fact that the band once again finds themselves unable to sit down and make that magic happen. they werent paying attention so they ended up in a rut again. 15 step yet again finds the band frustrated, wondering how they ended up where they started... used to be alright (everything in its place) lyrics everything- yesterday i woke up sucking on lemon there are 2 colors in my head what was that you tried to say (all about the band being unable to come together until they finally "got it") 2+2-i stay home forever but 2+2 always makes a 5 i LAY DOWN THE TRACK i try to sing alone but i get it all wrong you have not been paying attention dont question my authority or put me in a box (trying to make it work but it just wont fall into place... just like last time) 15- how come i end up where i started how come i end up where i went wrong used to be alright what happened did the cat get your tongue did you string come undone one by one facts for whatever (once again finding themselves in a situation where they cant make it work. they see the pattern that follows them from album to album, but are unable to escape it) - | Reviewer: elixir | 11/14/09 I read Dostoevsky's Notes From Underground, and I quote "I agree that two times two is four is an excellent thing; but if we're going to start praising everything, then two times two is five is sometimes also a most charming little thing." Haha! Writer of Crime and Punishment has such a sense of humor really! Well matched with this awesome song of Radiohead! :DDDD This is about alot of things. | Reviewer: Anonymous | 10/9/09 this is obviously talking about how everything we do now we destroy shit. Over in third world countries we destroy our selves, in second world countries we do probably the most damage as we just do work, probably the reason when an alien would look at our planet and see how much bad shit we caused to it would be calling use fucken cancer. Devil's way now. ok | Reviewer: Anonymous | 9/17/09 i think that by saying 2+2=5 they are saying that in the past they made that 2+2=5 and they all new that this was wrong but were too afraid to do something "ill stay home forever where two and two always makes a five" All hail to the thief, all hail to the thief, but I'm not... | Reviewer: Alex | 9/5/09 2+2=5 is obviously an Orwell reference... and it makes you think: if you were told from birth that 2+2=5, then you would believe that. However, we know that 2+2=4, because we were told that from a young age. 2+2=4 is "right" because everyone has been told that it is... it's definitely a fascinating, deep thing to think about... "freedom is the right to say that 2+2=4"... Even though Radiohead themselves have dismissed claims that the song is an attack on George W. Bush: "it would be too easy", various parts of the song, as pointed out by another reviewer, suggest that the song is based on the controversial election of Bush in 2000: "Go and tell the king that the sky is falling in, when it's not..." Again, something to think about. But this is what Radiohead do: their lyrics are hugely deep and open to interepretation, and they can mean something different to everybody, something personal to you, and no-one else. What a band! Radiohead forever! my application | Reviewer: Anonymous | 8/30/09 i know that neither are written about religion, but I always seem to apply this song and Orwell's 1984 to my struggle with religion. As a cynic and agnostic, i try to hide it from my religious family and friends (i try to sing along but i get it all wrong)but i can't bring myself to believe in something that doesn't add up. just my two cents. probably worth nothing. Simple feedback to share. | Reviewer: Thom Thomas | 8/14/09 English is my second language so I might get the lyric wrong but I took it simply.I think the idea itself"2＋2=5"makes sense in a way, because it is just an ideal thought and a rule made by human that 2＋2 is supposed to be 4.However things aren't always be mathmatically in this real world if you are not a person who has a delusive belief and the rules made by authorities(politician, broadcaster etc) are not always right...so that I interpret the lyric simply that paying attention is important and also think about in many ways or extra ways to understand things to open up.I think the lyric also referes about a stereotype and an open-minded.Anyway, one of the great song for sure. Orwell it is. | Reviewer: Konrad | 8/2/09 Well, the phrase 2+2=5 have many to do with Orwell. It was used in his book. "A slogan used in George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four[1] as an example of an obviously false dogma one must believe" - i don't like Wikipedia but here it is. I think the best reference to the entire song is Animal Farm by Orwell. Audaciously scewed phonemes | Reviewer: Jason | 7/23/09 I looked up the lyrics to see what they actually were seeing the vocals are somewhat distorted at times in the song. I think this track is sung purposefully ambiguously to interesting effect. I think this point may be validated by the lines I try to sing along But I get it all wrong which I think Thom drops in as an in joke. The phrases in question in my mind are... paying attention - sung to sound like penetration and meditation at times cos I'm not - sounds close to 'cos I'm mad' 'maybe not' - on the last line has the 't' left off and it sounds a little like 'mania' Maybe you'll think I'm crazy or need my ears checked but I think Thom Yorke is definitely audacious enough to try something like this. Thoughts? Anyway... Radiohead rules! Not only communism. | Reviewer: Beatronome | 5/17/09 I don't think the song is merely about communism. I think it's about modern Western society as well. Matter of fact.. It's about any economic and political form that exsists. In the end, a govournment wants to have their citizens under control. And this is exactly what's happening, only, we are a part of it, so how can we be objective? We only know or hear what is being published or broadcasted. Now, who is 100% sure that that's the truth? No one, as far as we all know, 2+2=5. We have the idea that we have free choice, but we're born in the system and we can't get out. Capitalism, money, it are all mediums used to keep population busy. It gives them a reason to live plus a sort of a satisfaction. No one will complain or stand up, and what's the use of one person does it anyway? Just leave us alone in our living rooms with our 70 inch flat screen tv, and we'll shut up. 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