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Well if you read Reilly's reply and were at all familiar with Radiohead's lyrics, you would know that it wasn't 100% right. He messed up the lyrics of just about every song on that list. Creep - it's "I'm a weirdo" not "I'm a winner." And they don't say "she's strong enough to run, she's wrong enough to run." That's retarded. It's just "She's running out again, she's running out, she runs." Paranoid Android - they never say "rain cloud," that would just be terrible. It's "rain down, rain down on me from a great height." No Surprises - it's "no alarms and no surprises, silent" and then "no alarms and no surprises, please." He never says "no alarms and no surprises for me." I do agree that every Radiohead song wins lyrically though. Musically, every Radiohead song wins too, except Street Spirit. That song is not one of their best musically, but the lyrics are very good. The important thing to consider here is this: every one of those Coldplay songs is about the same thing. "tell you I need you", "you are", "all the things you do", "if you go and leave me here on my own"; the only one slightly different is Trouble, although they still feel the need to talk to some unknown "you", saying "I never meant to do you harm", which is a really cliche line, it's true. Every one of those Coldplay songs is just a basic standard love song. A quick evaluation of those Radiohead songs: Creep - it's a basic standard love song. Paranoid Android - it's about paranoia and delusions, coupled with being disgusted by all the fake people in society today, druggies in bars, etc. Karma Police - it's about everyone's instinctive reaction to judge people around them, to hate people who are different, casting them out from accepted society. Street Spirit - it's about the inevitable decay of everything on this earth. Eventually everyone dies, and everything we do will be forgotten. It's about the futility of everything and how terrifying it can be. No Surprises - it's about giving up on trying to follow your dreams in favor of taking the easy way out, taking the quiet life. Working at "a job that slowly kills you." The song is sung from an imagined person's perspective. In his youth, he was ambitious and had dreams; he would "bring down the government" cause "they don't speak for us". But now his passion is gone and he says that this song is "my final fit, my final bellyache" and after this he is done resisting and will have fully given in to the inevitable. It's probably the most depressing song written in recent years. Don't get me wrong, I don't mind Coldplay, and their lyrics are better than most of the stuff that is out today. But a comparison to Radiohead is just ridiculous. Coldplay's lyricist has a fair way with words, and if he chose to write songs about real things he would probably do pretty well. But everything he's written so far has been pretty predictable and cliche.