Radiohead Lyrics

    ------ About the song You And Whose Army? performed by Radiohead

I take it as a guy who understands the Orwellian dystopia he lives in and is taunting his leaders with big words but is really on the verge of total collapse himself (like alot of Radiohead songs). You think you can drive me crazy with your brainwashing & doublethink, but you'll go the way of romans; you guys forget so easy ('HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE!'). Or that could be directed at us the listeners, the amnesiacs who keep repeating the past over & over again

By the end though he's fallen into delusion, horses & crusades all over again. Its like a prize fighter who refuses to go down even though he's clearly done for

    ------ About the song Fog performed by Radiohead

It's lovely, especially the piano led live from the reservoir version. Too much production on the recorded version, but the live at the reservoir version promotes this song from b-side to something truly wonderful. Better than most artists a-sides. What is it about? Who cares? If I had to guess I think it ties in with growing up, the revolving circle of life, having children, the paternal/maternal instinct, we all go bad in the end, life jades us all. If evil doesn't get us first then cynicism will.

    ------ About the song Go To Sleep performed by Radiohead

This may be just a completely tangential association that I have with this song, but since it came out in 2003, the year of the US invasion of Iraq, I can't help but think it is a political song expressing displeasure with George W. Bush. "Over my dead body" expresses the moral outrage of preemptive war, and loss of privacy rights. "We don't want the looneys taking over" well that's obvious, and "I'm going to go to sleep and let this wash all over me" is a reference to feeling powerless as an individual to effect change in politics, or perhaps feeling overwhelmed. I can never get this association out of my head when I listen to it. Even if this isn't the meaning of the song, I like thinking that it is.

Brad J.

    ------ About the song 2+2=5 performed by Radiohead

I believe this song is a reference to the book 1984 by George Orwells, as many previous comments have said. 2+2=5 is a quote from the book, and an important one at that, when the main character succumbs to the brain washing of the government in Oceania's dystopian society. It refers to 'double-think', when people will contradict their own thoughts to believe in another. They will believe whatever the goverment tells them, even if they said the opposite yesterday. That is why, if they say 2+2=5, then it must. The lyrics show confusion that is experienced in the book

    ------ About the song Fake Plastic Trees performed by Radiohead

Well, it's a song, it's art, and I don't think there's a right version or interpretation for it, it's not a contest. So the first wrong one in here it's you. Yeah, sex might have become an addiction for many people, but, wtf, it doesn't have to be incompatible with love, in fact, it can be used only for "fun" or can be one of the greatest expressions of Love, some people prefer the first one, some rather the second, it's all about tastes :) Peace

    ------ About the song In Limbo performed by Radiohead

I've seen Thom Yorke in an interview explaining this song, as an artistic explanation of an endless feeling of being lost and not being able to find your way out from all the terrible things that stuck in our minds. It's like being trapped in a deep confusion with nothing to do. in Limbo

    ------ About the song High and Dry performed by Radiohead

Guys high and got laid thus 2 jumps ..he kills himself to be recognized.. meth he stays out .. drying up in conversation -- his gfriend is straight and dont want her to know hes high.. wish he could make love-enough drugs make guys unable to perform ... She was the best he will ever have and she is leaving him high and dry .. broken glass changing who he was -used to break meth and coke ..He chose his friends over his girl and they will spit him out and he cheated on her ,.

    ------ About the song Idioteque performed by Radiohead

Perhaps Yorke just wanted to see what he could get away with, you know? Like how random the lyrics could be while at the same time people go crazy with interpretations.

Don't take that out of context by the way, it's a great song. It has a dark feel. But perhaps the purpose was to catch us red-handed in our "genius interpretations."

    ------ About the song My Iron Lung performed by Radiohead

haha hilarious lyrics, just total disgust with the society they are trapped in, where the young are already too cynical to speak and everyone goes on pretending that its not falling apart. I don't think ive heard a funnier few lyrics than 'suck your teenage thumb toilet trained & dumb when the power goes out we'll just hum' lol what a backhand to the very audience that made them, you can just imagine him smiling singing that. But they make it all worthwhile at the end - Hey if you're frightened thats OK!

so honest

    ------ About the song Separator performed by Radiohead

Everyone trying to over-analyze Radiohead's lyrics are missing the entire point. Arguing over it is absolutely fucking useless. All music is open to interpretation to every individual. No one is fucking right. Just take it as you do for yourself and leave it alone. Trying to pin down one concise explanation would cheapen these songs.