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No Surprises Lyrics Artist(Band):Radiohead
a job that slowly kills you, bruises that won't heal. You look so tired-unhappy, bring down the government, they don't, they don't speak for us. I'll take a quiet life, a handshake of carbon monoxide, with no alarms and no surprises, no alarms and no surprises, no alarms and no surprises, no alarms and no surprises, Silent silent. This is my final fit, my final bellyache, with no alarms and no surprises, no alarms and no surprises, no alarms and no surprises please. Such a pretty house and such a pretty garden. No alarms and no surprises (get me outta here), no alarms and no surprises (get me outta here), no alarms and no surprises, please. If you find some error in No Surprises Lyrics, would you please submit your corrections to me? Thank You. Review about No Surprises - | Reviewer: Sight | 10/7/2008 Radiohead - No surprises | Reviewer: Anonymous | 10/3/2008 I think it means, sadness. But above all, I think this person's world view is a coutdown. I think they depended on things very strongly, like we all do. And then those things failed him, didn't show, they were no longer what he should depend on to keep his hopes high. And when he figures it out that those things aren't what he needs, he becomes a state of emotion that this song highlights. But after this point of emotion, he'll find something else to depend on, and life will continue. We ALL go through it, and we all need to be sad sometimes. And nothing's better then something thats right, or understands. I personally LOVE this song, but I won't be going under the hill any time soon. Well I think... | Reviewer: Anonymous | 9/23/2008 I like to think it's about some middle-aged guy who seemingly has everything, but one day he up and kills himself by running the car in his garage. No alarms, no surprises. Just a quiet end to another meaningless life. After all, we're all pretty insignificant in the grand scheme of things. Is that kinda depressing? It doesn't matter, really. The song means to me whatever I want it to mean. Just like it might mean something different to you. We only go around once on this crazy world. For me it's a message to live my turn to the fullest, and never take a damn thing for granted. OH PLEASSEEEEE!!! | Reviewer: Anonymous | 9/19/2008 Simply one of the saddest, most depressing Radiohead songs around. But lets face it a lot of them are. To be able to write a song that rhymes, tells a story, and has and overarching meaning is... hard. Everyone wants to escape; school, work, people, even "Everything at all" from time to time. I cant speak for Thom York, but being frustrated with things you cant change seems to be at least a part of this song, and if being depressed, tired, and fed-up allows radiohead to write beautiful, all-be-it "sad"songs, more power to them. know one says you have to listen to them all the time. Listen to Gwen Steffani or Avril Lavigne if u are in the mood for something a bit lighter "OH Please" philosophy teenager kid. And whats wrong with a little melancholy? cant pretend to be happy all the time, even if you can play it off in front of others. As well as Radiohead marketing to/exploiting depressed teens through the unfair tactic of relation to lament, i call B.S. Why would R.H's Latest C.D "In Rainbows" be freely priced for consumers if they were just concerned with "shooting fish in a barrel." In conclusion listen to em if you want to, but don't say you are part of "Radiohead's proverbial barrel of money." Dont say u have anything to do with them if this is what you think. NOt a song by Britney spears, or J.T, i like to think there in it for more than just the money. I think | Reviewer: Anonymous | 9/17/2008 I believe this song is just his view on his life. It does sound suicidal but the song is awsome and if you think about it, this song can relate to all of of when we feel we are down to our final straw. Does anyone agree? .. | Reviewer: Nizlopi | 9/6/2008 'This is a nice song -- but spare me the philosophy -- this song is nothing more than an expression of the knowledge that selling melancholy songs to teenagers and people who act like they are teenagers well into adulthood is as easy as shooting fish in a barrel -- because people love to feel sorry for themselves.' This is the most intelligent comment I've seen on a song in a long time. Maybe they did want to have a 'deep meaning, but what you said worked for me. I'm a teenager. I like to feel sorry for myself. I'm like the proverbial fish in the Radiohead's barrel of money. oh please | Reviewer: posztoka | 9/7/2008 Anonymous, maybe you should get to know more people. It's nothing unusual about being sad, it's not something only emo's do. And Radiohead is one of the few bands who doesn't try to sell suicide to teenagers who think they aren't enough for the measure and really feel sorry for themselfs because of that. oh please | Reviewer: Anonymous | 8/26/2008 This is a nice song -- but spare me the philosophy -- this song is nothing more than an expression of the knowledge that selling melancholy songs to teenagers and people who act like they are teenagers well into adulthood is as easy as shooting fish in a barrel -- because people love to feel sorry for themselves. Always Crashing In The Same Car.... | Reviewer: laughingnome | 8/2/2008 As Morrisey of The Smiths once said: "Heaven knows I'm miserable now". Ditto as Talking Heads hinted at in 'Once In A Lifetime'. So The Radiohead song No Surprises deals with very similar subject matter to these two songs. Even Pleasant Valley Sunday by Neil Diamond Stooges The Monkeys. It is as if the social comment baton was passed relay style on to Radiohead. Though this song musically is very different to the three mentioned, the song remains the same.. Basically, social sheepishness is in all of us (our hunter gatherer gregarious nature), we all want to belong socially seek approval etc. So when every so often we as individuals (often thinkers),yearn for evolutionary change; the flip side of the coin is that we dare not speak our deepest thoughts in fear of losing everything in this socially and politically engineered liberal capitalist material world. The job, the career, "Such a pretty (lego)house" etc they could all go. Either way you look at it; Is it your downfall? Or your salvation? Its a question of attitude really. So advocating change is more often than not emotionally painful even socially alienating and ultimately can bring about rejection from our fellow humans even loved ones. Change and innovation can be one and the same thing. Involving an intellectual process. The person suffering from in socially conventionally terms a 'breakdown' is then often branded by those in societies comfort zone as an 'outsider'. Perceived to be 'thinking differently' or 'outside the box'. But all things decay and all things must pass its just the way it is otherwise there can be no no progress. Then 5 years later the sheep are playing catch up before being swept away in another economic recession once they have served their economic worker bee slave purpose... Remember the traumatised character in "No Surpises"? Well at this point he/she has choices to make; 1. Slowly suffocate. Keep quiet get drunk take other socially acceptable drugs etc turn away from your real self and pretend these feelings will just go away....; 2. Accept the need for some intellectual change with all the implied social risks; or you will have a breakdown of some sort anyway; Or 3. Be negative. Give in, become a victim and a loss to the intellectual cause and seek some sort of martyrdom. No Surprises | Reviewer: Abyss | 7/3/2008 This is a song about what happens when you become dead inside. Floating, drifting far above the world. Participating in the routines of the everyday world, an imitation of life. But there is nothing left behind your eyes, no pain or joy, no sorrow or hope. Just the endless void, the endless abyss, the lost ones in the blizzard walking the endless road. You pretend. You try to kid yourself that you can live your life. You try to lose yourself in a million pointless details, and while away your life until its end. Each day the same, melting into one another, passing by in a blur across eyes that cannot see, eyes that have seen too much. And you're never really alive. Never really there. Review By Pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Review the song No Surprises The area is only for review, if you want to submit the lyrics or the corrections of the lyrics, please click the link at the end of the lyrics.  Download "Radiohead" Music | | ||||||||||||
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