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Idioteque Lyrics
Artist(Band):Radiohead
Who's in bunker?
Who's in bunker?
Women and children first
And the children first
And the children
I'll laugh until my head comes off
I'll swallow till I burst
Until I burst
Until I
Who's in bunker?
Who's in bunker?
I have seen too much
You haven't seen enough
You haven't seen it
I'll laugh until my head comes off
Women and children first
And children first
And children
Here I'm allowed
Everything all of the time
Here I'm allowed
Everything all of the time
Ice age coming
Ice age coming
Let me hear both sides
Let me hear both sides
Let me hear both
Ice age coming
Ice age coming
Throw them in the fire
Throw them in the fire
Throw them in the
We're not scared of mongering
This is really happening
Happening
We're not scared of mongering
This is really happening
Happening
Mobiles quirking
Mobiles chirping
Take the money and run
Take the money and run
Take the money
Here I'm allowed (background: and first and the children x6)
Everything all of the time
Here I'm allowed
Everything all of the time
Here I'm allowed
Everything all of the time
Here I'm allowed
Everything all of the time
deaf and lost are the children (repeated)
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Review about Idioteque
The end | Reviewer: Boy A | 9/18/2008within hearing this song and doing 10 mintues of research on his family history i figured the true meaning to the song...He and i share the familiar military family his father is retired military as is mine. Very long story short when i was young i was told that since my father is and airforce retiree that if an atomic bomb where to hit then my father my mother and I would be sent to norad in Colorado springs......very few family's have that privalage his family was one of him and i'm sure his father told him the same as his father worked in norad also for many years during the same time frame my father was....read the lyrics and think about it and look it all up.....its about surviving the end of the world.
yes | Reviewer: megan | 9/13/2008
i really really love this song. and i think that the meaning of this songs, and all songs are like art. the artist has a certain meaning for the song, but everyone can interpret it in their own ways, dig? but anyways there's something in this song that like everyone can relate to that i love. and i like the beat too.
i used to hate this song | Reviewer: Anonymous | 8/11/2008
When I first got Kid A (about 6 months ago I think) Idioteque was immediately the most annoying song on it. I hated everything about it. The repetitive beat, the vocals, that weird screeching noise at the end, and damnit the lyrics sucked ass. Now for some reason its become one of my favorites off of Kid A. Sort of like when I started listening to Radiohead. I hated them (no idea why I just did), now they're one of my biggest inspirations for living and everything in between. Its strange how that works.
I'm not even going to bother writing up an interpretation for the lyrics, 'cause Yorke gives out painfully vague answers during interviews. I think he likes to change his mind about song meanings to mindfuck people. I'm pretty sure I've heard him give 3 explanations to Fake Plastic Trees alone.
Incredible Song | Reviewer: Anonymous | 7/17/2008
Lysadwas was almost correct in saying it was a mind-scape, but it's not Thom Yorke's; Thom said that Kid A was about the first human clone therefore, I think that this song (and the entire album)is based in the mind of Kid A, an angry, depressed, neurotic (So similar to Thom Yorke :D )
of course, the great thing about Radiohead is that their songs are as deep as you make them, and are interpreted differently by everyone, which is a sign of true art
Beautiful song | Reviewer: Jack | 7/12/2008
This song is beautiful and possibly my favourite radiohead song out there. The song for me is about how with our current lifestyle we will be left with nothing except greed, which will overwhelm us. I came to this conclusion through the line "here im allowed everything all the time" which i feel is saying that in first world countries people have everythign they want whenever they want it at the cost of the environment and human kindness. Whos in bunker - women and children first is more of a question than a statement. Thom using irony to point out that when we reach a point where we have to chose who lives and dies it will not be the innocent at all (the women and children) it will actually be the greedy, regardless of whether they deserve it.
Keep in mind this is just my interpretation, you can believe whatever you want.
idioteque | Reviewer: Anonymous | 3/31/2008
We take for granted really important things from life with the current lifestyle we have, especially if we are from America or any first world country. When the time comes for our lifestyle to end we'll be deaf and lost, but still greedy. Will women and children really go in the bunker? only those of a rich and powerful man, some of us will be thrown into the fire to keep others warm. Everyday will be a struggle to survive. If we get to the state of nature is all against all and anything is allowed anytime, all the time.
"Jus naturale, is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature, that is to say, of his own life, and consequently of doing anything which in his own judgment and reason, he shall conceive to be the aptest means thereunto." -Hobbes, Leviathan Ch.14
of course there are other interpretations, that is why this song and Radiohead are the best!! and why we have hears...for Radiohead and some other bands that really make good music(art).
Idioteque | Reviewer: 4EC | 3/21/2008
For me this song doesn't need any explanation at all.You just have too listen it, take a visual picture which is close only for yourself.It make no sense political it is or something esle, it's all about your personal imagination, fantasy and brainwash.
Agreement | Reviewer: ayatollah | 2/26/2008
Lysadwas
Great review. I think Yorke writes a lot of songs that "paint" ideas. It's often not necessary to understand every line (but great when you do!). The line "Here you're allowed...... gives huge meaning to the song. Is it heaven? - could be. But it could also be in the bunker where parental protection goes too far and becomes boundaryless. Children (and adults) need to understand the thing before they can make decisions ("...haven't heard enough" - "...let me hear both sides").
And of course it could be our attitudes on earth -take everything you can.
A picture of a mindscape is a great way to describe it.
RE: No. | Reviewer: Aaronb | 2/10/2008 | Reviewer: L05t | 2/20/2008
No. | Reviewer: Aaronb | 2/10/2008
Hey mate, Radiohead aren't ones to be jumping on bandwagons like 'inconvenient truth' and people did realize that pollution was bad for the earth before that lousy film came out.
The song to me is simply about how horrible most societies have become on earth. Mass consumerism - i'm allowed everything... swallow til I burst... take the money and run...
and the other bits have been summed up well already.
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Who is to say society has become horrible?
The way things are doesn't tell us how things are supposed to be...ever. Soon, this society you call horrible may be accepted by the generations who lives in it. Remember when slavery was okay? At the time no one thought it was bad..it was an okay society. So who is to say non-slavery is good now?
By the way...I'm black, and I hate Slavery. lol
Lysadwas | Reviewer: Apoco | 2/15/2008
To me, this is not a political song. It uses political references, apocalyptic references, meanings and vocab to paint a picture of the artist's (Thom Yorke's, and the rest of the band's) mindscape. Like in There There (The boney king of nowhere) when he starts along the lines of 'I Was Walking In Your Landscape'... the band is all about things that aren't how most people would view them. walking in your landscape to me meant thinking about you, thinking about who you are, how to be with you (interpreting this girl of interest's mindscape) and this song is about his own mindscape. Ice age coming, Ice age coming. He does care a lot about global warming, but I think that he just uses that (like high school english teachers always said "Use What You Know!") to paint a picture of what goes on in your mind. His mind, rather. That's what Kid A is. An audio painting of his mindscape. That's why its so atmospheric. I don't need to use examples. Just, after you read what I have typed, read the lyrics again with the music going, and think AWAY from the political meanings, the direct interpretations. See things differently...deep... think in terms of the artist's landscape. Just try thinking about it this way.
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