Radiohead – Everything in Its Right Place

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  General Comment:Not really one of my favorite Radiohead songs, but still a cool one. I'm pretty sure Thom just wanted everything to know that everything is in its right place...

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  General Comment:“You'll never know why you exist, but you'll always allow yourselves to be easily persuaded to take life seriously.”
  ― Tristan Tzara
  
  Everything in Its Right Place because There are two colors in my head !

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  General Comment:I think this is a classic case of absract lyrics. It's cheap, it sucks, and people aren't supposed to care what he's saying. I actually love Radiohead, but I don't go to Thom Yorke for great lyrical content...esspecially the more recent their music is.

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  My Interpretation:The way I see it is that the constituents of reality are set in a state of motion (its wrong place) relative to someones fixed perception. When something shitty happens, it is difficult to understand that the event of significance was in its right place in doing so and actually wasn't wrong at all. It is the universe saying, "all is as it should be" and we reciprocate by splitting the "allness" into right and wrong as we reject the universe - even if paint over the stain, all is as it should be

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    Love this

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  My Interpretation:Basically, you can interpret the lyrics the way you want. You see what you want to see. For me, the song is about a tough phase in life, such as adolescence, divorce etc. Sucking on a lemon refers to this. The two colors is a metaphor for an inner conflict, about whether to stay in a relationship or walk out for example. "What is that you tried to say" is the mind responding to the two different colors, not knowing which color to "listen" to, not knowing why the mind says one thing and the heart another. But in the end, everything is in its right place, the structure is already set and it's up to oneself to choose how to act, choose and live within this structure. Whatever we feel is right to do, is right.

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  General Comment:I read once that this album walks you through the phases of growing up through adulthood, that being said and this is the first song so this to me is about being a baby and the critical period and growing as a young person. everything in its right place is literally about putting an egg and a sperm together, fitting together miraculously, as conception is essentially a miracle. sucking on a lemon refers to baby faces or the fact that growing up can be a bitter experience and will influence you later in life. your experience in the critical period can have a lasting impression on your experience later in life. the reference to colors is considering how we are born colorblind but our experience as a baby/young adult even if it is subtle or unnoticed may affect your views/personality/being later in life. what was that you tried to say is considering the influence of the mother figure trying to understand her/it and maybe not understanding everything that is being taken in. in short form this song is about how everything, views/opinions/ideas is set up early in life and carries into adulthood for better or worse

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  General Comment:Overall, I get the picture that waking up sucking on lemon starts the song which means to show that you have been living life but somehow it is a souring experience and you have now come to realize this on a conscious level.
  Yet as you try to question why things aren't the way they should be or why you are not as happy as you could have been, there are domineering tones of "everything in its right place" that come through the obvious experience of living in a world rife with systems and positions and rules for everything.
  So you are struggling to break free from convention and yet still not sure of why or how this going to happen..you have just a splinter in your mind that something is not right as things just don't feel right.
  And as you begin an introspective search, you find there is a repeating theme of absolutes that your logical mind will always offer in place of your heart's greatest aspiration. In this rumination, you have delved in so deep you are distracted by everything even the inner voice that has tried to say there may be another way out or perhaps you tried to say is an external person or event that has been warning of some kind of foreboding danger while you continue ever deeper in thought.
  
  regardless the dark dangerous tones speak to me of conflict..an internal one in my opinion.

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    wow

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  My Interpretation:Overall, I get the picture that waking up sucking on lemon starts the song which means to show that you have been living life but somehow it is a souring experience and you have now come to realize this on a conscious level.
  Yet as you try to question why things aren't the way they should be or why you are not as happy as you could have been, there are domineering tones of "everything in its right place" that come through the obvious experience of living in a world rife with systems and positions and rules for everything.
  So you are struggling to break free from convention and yet still not sure of why or how this going to happen..you have just a splinter in your mind that something is not right as things just don't feel right.
  And as you begin an introspective search, you find there is a repeating theme of absolutes that your logical mind will always offer in place of your heart's greatest aspiration. In this rumination, you have delved in so deep you are distracted by everything even the inner voice that has tried to say there may be another way out or perhaps you tried to say is an external person or event that has been warning of some kind of foreboding danger while you continue ever deeper in thought.
  
  regardless the dark dangerous tones speak to me of conflict..an internal one in my opinion.

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  My Interpretation:To me this song speaks about the confusion an individual goes through during a difficult period such as growth, change, loss etc as situations like these are the rare moments when you actually get an opportunity to see things out of the glazed routine you may have been seeing them through.
  
  This is about the eternal struggle to find oneself and those rare, lucid moments of clarity when you realize you may be at odds with someone's ideas..even if they are so close to you. Or it may be the alienated feeling when you come to realize you are at odds with everything around you.
  
  Waking up sucking on lemon is waking up with a bad attitude..but it is that sour taste that alerts you something isn't the way it should be.
  
  Everything in its right place is actually IMO, a taunt to describe a view of a totalitarian type culture that can often pervade our day to day lives, government democratic systems and in many other ways. This phrase serves as a threat that may encroach upon our personal freedoms.
  
  There are two colors in my head what was that you tried to say?
  Perhaps this is a description of someone who knows they want to think outside the box but are chained in to black

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    Perhaps this is a description of someone who knows they want to think outside the box but are struggling to break free from being chained into an absolute sense of life, as there are only two colors in their head.
    
    Black or White, 0 or 1, +ve side, or -ve side, there seems to be no gray areas as they continually try to make sense of it all..and the whole time there is this dominating tone ingrained from society "everything in its right place"
    
    So it is a struggle and what is that you tried to say has to do with a person who is trying to hear his own inner voice saying perhaps there is an alternative but is also restricted to following the ideology of "everything in its own place".
    
    Overall, I get the picture that waking up sucking on lemon starts the song which means to show that you have been living life but somehow it is a souring experience and you have now come to realize this on a conscious level.
    Yet as you try to question why things aren't the way they should be or why you are not as happy as you could have been, there are domineering tones of "everything in its right place" that come through the obvious experience of living in a world rife with systems and positions and rules for everything.
    So you are struggling to break free from convention and yet still not sure of why or how this going to happen..you have just a splinter in your mind that something is not right as things just don't feel right.
    And as you begin an introspective search, you find there is a repeating theme of absolutes that your logical mind will always offer in place of your heart's greatest aspiration. In this rumination, you have delved in so deep you are distracted by everything even the inner voice that has tried to say there may be another way out or perhaps you tried to say is an external person or event that has been warning of some kind of foreboding danger while you continue ever deeper in thought.
    
    regardless the dark dangerous tones speak to me of conflict..an internal one in my opinion.

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  General Comment:I heard Thom interviewed on the BBC and he suggested the song is about the artist Rothko (Mark Rothko)

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