| | Idioteque Lyrics Artist(Band):Radiohead
Who's in a bunker? Women and children first And the children first And the children I laugh until my head comes off I swallow till I burst Until I burst Until I Who's in a bunker? Who's in a bunker? I've seen too much You haven't seen enough You haven't seen it I laugh until my head comes off Women and children first And children first And children Here I'm alive Everything all of the time Here I'm alive 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 scare mongering This is really happening Happening We're not scare 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 alive (background: and first and the children . . .) Everything all of the time Here I'm alive Everything all of the time Here I'm alive Everything all of the time Here I'm alive Everything all of the time and first and the children . . . If you find some error in Idioteque Lyrics, would you please submit your corrections to me? Thank You. Thanks to cupcake for submitting the lyrics. Review about Idioteque Your speculations are incorrect. | Reviewer: Anonymous | 2/6/10 Stop trying to make sense of the lyrics. He wanted to create unique emotions in his songs. So what he did was write a whole bunch of lines and put them all in a hat. He then drew the lyrics out of the hat, put them together, to make a song. He expressed that this would create new emotions out of the combined emotions of the lyrics. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cOfiZjxTd8 umm | Reviewer: Anonymous | 1/30/10 The lyrics are incredibly vague...and you guy's all have terrific imaginations. I think "whose in a bunker" is a reference to Dick Chaney hiding in a bunker while Bush flew around in Airforce One, in the days following 9/11. Of course this song was written 2 years before that happened. what its definately not about | Reviewer: michael | 1/28/10 i cannot beleive people think this song has any reference to the titanic, thats just rediculous. please give radiohead more song writing credit, they are intelligent people who understand how the world is working and are deeply angered and affected by it. This is about climate change and the corrupt profit driven elite | Reviewer: Adam Pinhey | 1/7/10 i believe this song is more about climate change and the worlds elite letting us believe that things arent as bad as they really are and that there is an ice age coming, global warming is more likely to cause an ice age than to burn the earth up, ice core drilling has shown us there was a huge build up of co2 before previous ice ages. these people (elites-heads of corporation the richest of the rich making up less than 1% of the globes popultation) are continuing to strive for profit organizing wars for resources and having us and the automated factories be the workforce for attaining these resources (mobiles quirking mobiles chirping) as they build bunkers to ensure the survival of their families/bloodlines. (take the money and run). the majority of the world when disaster strikes will be left without the resources or infrastructure to survive it (throw them in the fire) -this guy has an understanding of this- -------------------------------------------------- Simple Exclaimation | Reviewer: Jimmeh | 11/24/09 -------------------------------------------------- just andering, wtf does an ice age have to do with titanic, he'd have said iceburg and wouldnt it have been throw them in the sea or the water........and as far as ww2 and the hollacaust wtf does it have to do with them aside from bunkers and mobiles being military related, ppl stop trying to be so artsy interpeting things trying to be creative and see things for what they are this is a very clear message relayed in this song and people are so daft to the real workings of human nature they dont even see it when its put right under their nose. absolute power corrupts absolutely and corporations have more power than governments right now as due to the fact they have more money in a world driven by money, that means money=power and ppl with power do not like to share you tell me of one monarch etc who did things of good will, not it was always driven by greed ambiguous | Reviewer: kalan | 12/23/09 I agree with Kristin. Also the song is ambiguous for a reason, it's all up to interpretation. By having the lyrics not be extremely explicit in their meaning, he is making the song have universal meaning i.e.)911,holocaust, ww2, nuclear warfare, and even the titanic. Depending on who's listening to the song, it can call on different events to relate to. truth | Reviewer: Kristin | 12/2/09 this song is amazing in that it doesn't specifically call to one past, present or imminent event or living hell but speaks to all of them. i don't feel there's a need to pinpoint one specific happening. in beautiful, simple words, the song portrays politics, war, family values, technology, earth, the mind and the overconsumption of all of it and exposes what a creative voice most authentically seeks - truth. Simple Exclaimation | Reviewer: Jimmeh | 11/24/09 You tools, its not about a specific event. Its about man's self destructive and violent nature and how we are doomed to destroy ourselves. We just take what we want and stuff everyone else, stuff the women and children I want my big house, I want power, I want a giant TV and a swimming pool etc. War, global warming, poverty. it is all driven by our own greed and desire for more. Then the second part is about how people seem to be oblivious, distracted by mobile phones and technology combined with our own self indulgence. In no way is this song about the titanic The past. | Reviewer: Hikari | 11/22/09 I for one doubt the song is a prediction for the 00s, even though some of the lyrics may scarily depict events since the song was written. It is alot more likely that it is based on the past, "Whos in a bunker?" Could be a reference to either world wars, most like WW2, with the blitzkrieg and all. "Women and children first" definetly referencing the Titanic. also, @Prophetic, are you saying theres something wrong with electing a black guy? Titanic! | Reviewer: Casely | 11/18/09 This song to me is simply a narration of the movie Titanic mixed with the Artists' own thoughts and blurbs of splendor. Who's in bunker?- Trouble ahead, taking a head count. Women and children first- Well now come on. Typical tragedy. Not to mention an direct quote from the movie. I haven't seen enough, you haven't seen enough- Jack determining whether or not he goes on the cruise. I laugh until my head comes off. Here I'm allowed, everything all the time.- Jack is having a merry 'ole time aboard ship! He's living the luxury life, if only for a moment. Ice age coming- Ahem. Ice+ship=epic failure. Let me hear both sides- Jack sways Rose from her fiance thinger boyfriend, whatevs, and makes her his Goddess. WhatsHisNuts gets pissed and everyone is hostile and enraged. Throw me in the Fire- Well at this point Jacky Boy's got the verdict of death and they've thrown him in the furnace room to drown. I would like to point out that the juxtaposition between fire and drowning is really brilliant. We're not scaremongering, this is really happening- Everyone is coming to terms that yes, lives will be lost. -bows head and does sign of the cross- Mobiles working, mobiles chirping. Take the money and run.- This is the part where all of the life rafts are being utilized and all the rich assholes have managed to shove off first. Captains and greedy crew members are feuding about other matters of life and wealth. The first of the children.- If anything, this could mean that the first of the children to make it out and survive were the ones to tell the story of the Titanic So, that's my personal interpretation. A heap of peeps think its about global warming and all that jazz, but this song was released in 2000, years before global warming was even a legit theory. I probs have just sat around wayyyy too long listening to this song and deciphering lyrics, needing a narrative to put them to. But I think its pretty trucking solid, yeah? Prophetic | Reviewer: Anonymous | 8/21/09 The Pitchfork.com rundown of the best songs of the 00s got me thinking about Radiohead's Idioteque. Not to assign any great clairvoyance to Thom Yorke, especially concerning a song written in 2000, but have you actually read those lyrics lately? Could anything have summed up this decade more accurately? References to bunkers: terrorist attacks, anthrax, Cheney, Sars, Swine flu, etc. Ice age coming: the age of Bush; the age of truthiness; the realization we'd have to face a new dark ages in our lifetime Let me hear both sides: the corporate media chatterhouse/clusterfuck. We're not scare mongering: obvious. Mobiles chirping: written before most people had cell phones. Take the money and run: the corporate/wall street culture that brought us to the great recession. But more than all of those lines, the lines in particular that strike me are: "This is really happening/Happening" That would be such a solid epitaph for the 00s. It sums up the most common emotion I know I felt over and over again over the past decade for various reasons. It calls to mind everything from the horror of watching the towers fall with your own eyes, to the Iraq war taking place against all reason, to Katrina begging to world to believe what was really going on there to not being able to believe we actually elected the black guy. I think Idioteque not only sums up a lot of the mood of the 00s, but it eerily nails a lot of the details of the decade before they even happened. Imagine being able to go back and time and tell the you of 10 years ago some of the things that were in store for the world. Would you have believed you? 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