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Everyone
Everyone around here
Everyone is so near
It's holding on
It's holding on
Everyone
Everyone is so near
Everyone has got the fear
It's holding on
It's holding on
It's holding on
It's holding on
It's holding on
Everyone around here
Everyone is so near
It's holding on
It's holding on
Everyone
Everyone is so near
Everyone has got the fear
It's holding on
It's holding on
It's holding on
It's holding on
It's holding on
Lyrics submitted by Vache, edited by TheAmazingSoundsOfGreenwood
Track duration: 05:52
"The National Anthem" as written by Thomas Yorke, Edward John O'brien, Colin Charles Greenwood, Jonathan Richard Guy Greenwood, Philip Selway
Lyrics © Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
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What many people don't know is that the "mess" of instruments in the middle, is actually all of the people playing the pipes and other instuments doing a legidiment solo in the key of the bass riff, (which thom wrote when he was 14). Each of the pipe players is proffessional, but when it all goes together it sounds horrendous but scince it's in the same key it makes the bass riff rise above it all.
If each solo was alone, and every other instrument played rythmically along it would sound great, but because everybody wants to do everything it doesn't work...
Hopefully you see the connections to the direction I'm going!
Lyrics fiting
"Everyone is so near" in the way that they all want the same general things that they will never get
"What's going on" so much choas and confusion because of differnces in ambition
"Everyones got the fear it's holding on" They realize that it can't work, and whatever this "utopia" they are trying to reach is useless because they are held down by others that are being held down by themselves. Very Anti-Humanistic, which I like.
"Is holding on" He screams this at the ending in the choas repeditally, it will never end, were doomed.
I find the bass riff is just saying over and over againg skeptically and rebilliously, "This just keeps on happening" like the "is holding on".
My explination fits into the title as well, "National Anthem" sort of a cry of the people.
A great song,
Cheers!
First, I'm pretty sure "what's going on" is supposed to be "and so alone". I'm not a Radiohead expert or anything but the contradiction would be very cool.
Also, I'm kinda confused about how none of the meanings proposed here have to do with the internet. So far a lot of the stuff I've read about the album (I got it a month ago) has to do with how it sounds computery (e.g. Idioteque, Everything in its Right Place, Kid A) and builds of the 2000, y2k hysteria. The song totally makes sense in terms of internet paranoia. It brings people closer together - but at the same time drives them apart, and takes over our lives and our nations. As in, chaos is the new national anthem.
Anyway, great song.
Peace and Love
Soybn
it is "its holding on" both times
not "whats going on"
and who knows what its about
95% of the lyrics in the Kid A album were made by cutting up lyrics and pulling them from a hat, literally.
I think the dissonance and aggressive tendencies of the music are the lyrics in works with the title.
like this is the title of the song and this is what we mean by it, here is our crazy awesome music.
then you let go.
the end of this song is how it feels when you get there.
are my favourite's, off of Kid A.
Which is my favourite album.