allright guys, tell us your favourite lines from radiohead songs?

 

 

mine:

 

"some day i am gonna grow wings, a chemical reaction, hysterical and useless." - let down

 

"i'm not here, this isn't happening" - how to disappear completely

 

"she looks like the real thing and tastes like the real thing, my fake plastic love" - fake plastic trees

 

"yesterday i woke up sucking a lemmon" - everything in its right place

 

"breathe, keep breathing... i can't do this alone..." - exit music

 

"im not living, im just killing time" - true love waits

 

"are you such a dreamer, to put the world to rights? i'll stay home forever, where two and two, always make a five?" 2+2=5

 

"i don't know why i feel so tongue-tied'' - myxomatosis

 

"A little bit of knowledge can destroy you" - cuttoth

 

"i'll be waiting with a gun and a pack of sandwiches" - talk show host

 

"I keep fallin over, I keep passin out, when I see a face like you" - black star

 

"well of course I'd like to sit around and chat, well of course I'd like to stay and chew the fat" - life in a glasshouse

 

"want to, I want to be someone else or I'll explode" - talk show host

 

"You're my center when I spin away, out of control on videotape" - videotape

 

" You're the cream in my airport coffees" - i froze up

 

 

 

god, so many to mention.. but those are the few that kick arse.

"i don't know why i feel so tongue-tied'' - myxomatosis

 

that line appears in Cuttooth as well

Indeed...I was going to say that too. But you already have so....I won't.

Here are mine :

 

"You float like a feather in a beautiful world."

"I want you to notice when I'm not around" - Creep

 

"Even though I might, even though I try, I can't" - I Can't

 

"Oh, she said 'No, go.' She said she'd like to, she's seen you, but 'No. No, go.'" - Banana Co.

 

"She looks like the real thing and she tastes like the real thing, my fake plastic love" - Fake Plastic Trees

 

"You have turned me into this. Just wish that it was bullet proof" - Bullet Proof..I Wish I Was...

 

"Cracked eggs, dead birds scream as they fight for life" - Street Spirit (Fade Out)

 

"In a fast German car, i'm amazed that I survived : an airbag saved my life" - Airbag

 

"And now, we are one, in everlasting peace and we hope that you choke." - Exit Music (For A Film)

 

"Disappointed people clinging onto bottles" - Let Down

 

"I've got the smell of a local man" - Climbing Up The Walls

 

"Such a pretty house and such a pretty garden, let me out of here !" - No Surprises

 

"That there, that's not me. I go where I please. I walk through walls" - How To Disappear Completely

 

"Cut the kids in halves" - Morning Bell

 

"After years of waiting, nothing came" - Packt like Sardines In A Crushd Tin Box

 

"You and whose army ? You and your cronies"

"We ride, tonight, ghost horses" - You And Whose Army ?

 

"Let's go down a waterfall. Talk about the good times and never look back." - I Might Be Wrong

 

"Well of course I'd like to sit around and chat. Well of course I'd like to stay and chew the fat, only only. But someone's listening in." - Life In A Glasshouse

 

"In the flood you'll build an Ark and sail us to the moon." - Brush The Cobwebs Out Of the Sky.

 

"We are accidents waiting to happen." The Boney King Of Nowhere.

 

"Walking like giant cranes, and with my X-Ray eyes, i'll strip you naked" - It Girl. Rag Doll.

 

But I basically love all Radiohead lyrics.

"I wish it was the sixties, I wish I could be happy

I wish, I wish, I wish that something would happen " - the bends

 

"i keep falling over i keep passing out when i see a face like you. " - Black Star

 

"Please could you stop the noise, I'm trying to get some rest

From all the unborn chicken voices in my head" - Paranoid Android

 

"I wish that they'd sweep down in a country lane,

late at night when I'm driving.

Take me on board their beautiful ship,

show me the world as I'd love to see it." - Subterranean Homesick Alien

 

"If you try the best you can

The best you can is good enough" - Optimistic

"Just 'cause you feel it, doesn't mean it's there." - There There

 

...my current msn screen name

Cut the kids in half... (Morning Bell)

 

That's creepy + cool

"The breath of the morning

I keep forgetting.

The smell of the warm summer air.

 

I live in a town

where you can't smell a thing,

you watch your feet

for cracks in the pavement.

 

Up above

aliens hover

making home movies

for the folks back home,

 

of all these weird creatures

who lock up their spirits,

drill holes in themselves

and live for their secrets.

 

They're all uptight, uptight,

uptight, uptight,

uptight, uptight.

 

I wish that they'd sweep down in a country lane,

late at night when I'm driving.

Take me on board their beautiful ship,

show me the world as I'd love to see it.

 

I'd tell all my friends but they'd never believe me,

They'd think that I'd finally lost it completely.

I'd show them the stars and the meaning of life.

They'd shut me away.

But I'd be alright, alright,

I'd be alright,

I'm alright.

 

I'm just uptight, uptight,

uptight, uptight,

uptight, uptight,

uptight, uptight,

uptight."

 

That entire song just hits me hard.

 

 

Also:

 

"Move along, nothing left to see, just a body, nothing left to see." - Gagging Order.

 

and the best line in any song ever:

 

"For a minute there, I lost myself."

"Just 'cause you feel it, doesn't mean it's there." - There There

 

...my current msn screen name

:laugh3: Me and Ég-elska-Thom have way better versions:

 

Just Cozzie feel it doesn't mean it's there.

Just, Coz, you feel it, doesn't mean it's there.

Thom: "Just, Cozzie, feel it!" - Colin: "Doesn't mean it's there."

 

:laugh3:

 

It actually is amazing how much I really know about Radiohead's lyrics. :lol: For me it is an adventure to understand what Thom is singing. It's like going out into the woods and looking for... a precious flower. :laugh3:

 

Well, I still have some...

 

I like Electioneering. Especially "when I go forwards, you go backwards".

 

And...

 

Actually... It's amazing how I hardly understand what Thom is singing and I still like it... The way he's singing... :\

 

:D

 

*scratches head*

 

Needle in the hay...

 

"You are the sun and moon and stars, are you"

 

:D Haha, me and Ég-elska-Thom would sing this line at least once a day when we are talking in English.

in pitch dark I go walking in your landscape..

 

love it :nice:

in pitch dark I go walking in your landscape..

 

love it :nice:

In pitch dark? :lol:

 

Uuuuuuhhhhh, it was so obvious that he'd written something like that.

 

Aw, Thom has really ncie hair!

 

Right now, I can't think of any Radiohead lyrics because the Nappies song is stuck in my head. :laugh3:

:freak:

 

erm.....

 

"Yesterday I woke up sucking a lemon"

When I was younger the most fascinating lines would be "We hope that you choke" and "We suck young blood". I mean they're so simple and childish and all but I found that strangely attractive and pleasing.

When I was younger the most fascinating lines would be "We hope that you choke" and "We suck young blood". I mean they're so simple and childish and all but I found that strangely attractive and pleasing.

Why are they simple and childish? :laugh3:

 

I can somehow understand simple, but childish...

"I want a perfect body.

I want a perfect soul.

I want you to notice when I'm not around.

You're so fuckin' special.

I wish I was special."

Creep.

"The breath of the morning

I keep forgetting.

The smell of the warm summer air.

 

I live in a town

where you can't smell a thing,

you watch your feet

for cracks in the pavement.

 

Up above

aliens hover

making home movies

for the folks back home,

 

of all these weird creatures

who lock up their spirits,

drill holes in themselves

and live for their secrets.

 

They're all uptight, uptight,

uptight, uptight,

uptight, uptight.

 

I wish that they'd sweep down in a country lane,

late at night when I'm driving.

Take me on board their beautiful ship,

show me the world as I'd love to see it.

 

I'd tell all my friends but they'd never believe me,

They'd think that I'd finally lost it completely.

I'd show them the stars and the meaning of life.

They'd shut me away.

But I'd be alright, alright,

I'd be alright,

I'm alright.

 

I'm just uptight, uptight,

uptight, uptight,

uptight, uptight,

uptight, uptight,

uptight."

 

That entire song just hits me hard.

 

 

 

I was thinking of posting the whole song too...I just love the lyrics. They're probably the Radiohead lyrics that make me think the most.

And we all went to Heaven in a little row boat

There was nothin' to fear

nothin' to doubt

 

-Pyramid Song

 

 

 

its actually one of my favorite Radiohead songs lyrically.... I don't think I can choose just one though... :embarassed:

"This far, but not further

I'm hanging off a branch"

 

:laugh3: Is there any deep meaning behind this? The imagery in my head is quite funny though.

And we all went to Heaven in a little row boat

There was nothin' to fear

nothin' to doubt

 

-Pyramid Song

 

 

 

its actually one of my favorite Radiohead songs lyrically.... I don't think I can choose just one though... :embarassed:

^ Yeah. I like that one too.

"Why so green and lonely" from There There

 

 

"I'd tell all my friends but they'd never believe me

They'd think that I'd finally lost it completely

I'd show them the stars and the meaning of life

They'd shut me away

But I'd be alright... alright...

I'm alright...

Alright...

 

I'm just uptight, uptight,

Uptight, uptight..." from my kind of favorite Radiohead song: Subterranean Homesick Alien. especially those bolded ones with Thom begging "I'm alright"... drives me crazy....

"I'm up in the clouds

I'm up in the clouds

And I can't... I can't come down

I can watch but not take part

Where I end and where you start

Where you... You left me alone... You left me alone..."

 

- Where I end and you begin

It should be raining, it should be raining...

 

The Gloaming

How could I forget this one ?

 

Fitter, happier

more productive

comfortable

not drinking too much

regular exercise at the gym (3 days a week)

getting on better with your associate employee contemporaries

at ease

eating well (no more microwave dinners and saturated fats)

a patient better driver

a safer car (baby smiling in back seat)

sleeping well (no bad dreams)

no paranoia

careful to all animals (never washing spiders down the plughole)

keep in contact with old friends (enjoy a drink now and then)

will frequently check credit at (moral) bank (hole in wall)

favours for favours

fond but not in love

charity standing orders

on sundays ring road supermarket

(no killing moths or putting boiling water on the ants)

car wash (also on sundays)

no longer afraid of the dark

or midday shadows

nothing so ridiculously teenage and desperate

nothing so childish

at a better pace

slower and more calculated

no chance of escape

now self-employed

concerned (but powerless)

an empowered and informed member of society (pragmatism not idealism)

will not cry in public

less chance of illness

tires that grip in the wet (shot of baby strapped in back seat)

a good memory

still cries at a good film

still kisses with saliva

no longer empty and frantic

like a cat

tied to a stick

that's driven into

frozen winter shit (the ability to laugh at weakness)

calm

fitter, healthier and more productive

a pig

in a cage

on antibiotics

 

Monstrously meaningful to me, especially the lasst four lines

"hangin in the bar with my drip feed on

talking to mr girlfriend waiting for something to happen..." -the bends

Were rotten fruit

were damaged goods

what the hell we've got nothing more to loose

 

Backdrifts.