Lyrics for You Never Wash Up After Yourself as interpreted by Vache

You Never Wash Up After Yourself Lyrics
I must get out once in a while
Everything's starting to die
The dust settles, the worms dig
The spiders crawl over the bed

I must get out once in a while
I eat all day and now I'm fat
Yesterday's meal is hugging the plates
You never wash up after yourself

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myeyesareopen
05-14-2002

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no one commented on this? just cause it's not an album track? it's AMAZING.

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adrenalinegrl
05-25-2002

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This song is about how people can get so involved in their own dealings that life passes them by. The dust, worms, and spiders all signify aging and death. People have to go out there and live life to the fullest - making sure they wash up, of course.

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mascara_cavalcade
09-14-2002

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Well put adrenalinegrl. I was gonna say the same thing.

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peroxide_filth
10-04-2004

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This song means a lot to me - simple as that. I have it somewhere but I've lost it... where can I find it?

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Carlos deJackal
10-19-2004

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My Iron Lung EP

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liamo
04-01-2005

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i read that this was written after a long tour when thom stayed at home for a long time, the worms where his pets in a farm thing, and basicly describes staying in cos you feel low.

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liamo
04-01-2005

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also the worms "are dead"

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Tabuckt
04-28-2005

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This song is so simple, yet really good. I read somewhere that it was recorded in one try, and it has never been played live.

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underdose86
01-04-2006

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I used to go to sleep to this song all of the time, it's so beautiful. This and "Everyone In The World Is Doing Something Without Me" by "Future Sound Of London" haunting, but so relaxing.

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superpants1
01-21-2006

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Sounds to me like its about being a student. bloody annoying when ur flat mates don't wash up.

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meathoof
11-05-2006

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amazing/sad song... :(

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Xeans
03-08-2007

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this has such an english feel to it, i can just imagine a hot summers afternoon feeling lethargic as fuck, this is the music to go with it.

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Crouch
03-27-2007

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Amazingly beautiful song but totally meaningless in my mind..I always thought this song was a bit of a piss take by Thom Yorke to all his over serious fans who over analyse and take it all too seriously, he's just kind a saying he can make anything sound depressing and moving if you sing it in the right way and not always to take things to serioualy,I mean you never wash up after your self, come on that hardly warrants the tone in which he's singing it, sounds more like something you would sing at a funeral than a messy kitchen sink.That said though every time I listen to it it gives me goose bumps and could bring me to tears almost, purely cos the melody is so hauntingly sung in thoms powerful but fragile voice..what do you think???

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Crouch
03-27-2007

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Amazingly beautiful song but totally meaningless in my mind..I always thought this song was a bit of a piss take by Thom Yorke to all his over serious fans who over analyse and take it all too seriously, he's just kind a saying he can make anything sound depressing and moving if you sing it in the right way and not always to take things to serioualy,I mean you never wash up after your self, come on that hardly warrants the tone in which he's singing it, sounds more like something you would sing at a funeral than a messy kitchen sink.That said though every time I listen to it it gives me goose bumps and could bring me to tears almost, purely cos the melody is so hauntingly sung in thoms powerful but fragile voice..what do you think???

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azkm
05-01-2007

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Depression, apathy and lethargy

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eyevree
08-20-2007

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As with most art I feel that whatever emotion this song does or does not evoke from the listener is what it means. IMO, once art is created and in available for public view it then belongs to the public to take from it what they will. For me, what this song represents is that feeling when you're stuck. You have ideas for creation and action, yet you don't. You know how to move forward, yet you won't. You are overwhelmed with the next step not knowing which way to turn, so you don't. And all the while you are constantly aware that life is passing you by...you know that you should at least take care of yourself, but by that point, in your brain there is no logical reason to...you can't even move...and so your life manifested physically in hygiene, emotionally in despair, lays to waste. To second azkm, Depression, apathy and lethargy

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highway pig
08-23-2007

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i think this is about getting out of your own head, its about separating yourself from your former experiences; in particular it could be about getting past a love affair that has been consuming you.

"I must get out once in a while
Everything's starting to die
The dust settles, the worms dig
The spiders crawl over the bed"

If you cannot take a step away from yourself and your typicality the dust, the worms, the spiders, these things that exist for and in whats been left over will take over. Dust settles is a cliche, we know what it means. Worms can only live underneath the dust and spiders eat (thus live on) only captured prey thats been wrapped and dead for a while. That leads us into the next verse:

"I must get out once in a while
I eat all day and now I'm fat
Yesterday's meal is hugging the plates
You never wash up after yourself"

The feeling is of getting nowhere, of being consumed and it's because of yesterday's meal, your past, which of course informs your upcoming - if you eat all day, you'll be fat. The ostensible focus turns from "I" to "you" by the end.

There's no canned and happy ending in the song, espcially not if you don't manage to wash up after yourself. When that's the case it's a constant struggle to renew, to enact any sort of change with yourself or anything else.

I visualize a someone running in a spinning wheel and counting the miles spent when i hear this, we must get out once in a while, but do we?

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kthxbi
04-22-2008

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Sorry, but I really think people have been looking way too deeply into this.

To me it just seems to be about a relationship. You don't know what's going on at first, you just know that he's unhappy and everything seems to be ruined, and then the final line is him saying to someone 'You never wash up after yourself' - he's telling someone they made a mess and they didn't bother fixing it. I think it's about a broken relationship.

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ramzi1981
05-03-2008

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I think this song is about a relationship that faded away because of those little details that don't seem to really matter but are a symptom of something else going wrong. The girl left the guy and he's remembering when she told him "you never wash up after yourself". He thinks to himself, "how could I be such an idiot?". Now that she's gone, his house is a mess, but not because of his carelessness, but rather, more ironically, because he is terribly depressed. The whole song is him being sorry for not having cared when he could have.

Honestly, I drew my conclusion about what this song means from only making out what Thom said in the last verse, "You never wash up after yourself". Then when I read the lyrics I kind of tried to find something else because it did not fit perfectly, but I had to keep my first interpretation because it had grow roots in my brain and is impossible to deny now. Very powerful song.

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Turismo417
07-23-2008

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I love how simple the structure of this song is set up.

It kind of sounds like the lyrics portray an introspective and dreary look after a break up, or maybe a death, or something traumatic.

I feel songs aren't just about "a relationship" almost any song can be put in that terms. To me, this song can represent the dullness and lethargy experienced right after something terrible happens. Or even quite possible in a state of extreme depression. The narrator may be trying to blame someone, or even himself with the last line.

"You never wash up after yourself"

The song is quite cyclic, and can flow from start to finish very easily, leading me to believe that one who is in a depression, or a state of mind depicted in this song, can't get out.

beautiful, and simple


Thanks for reading
-KB

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eatenbytheworms
12-01-2008

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I also don't hear anything in the song that points to it being about a relationship. It just isn't there. I do think the song is about being depressed. There are many references pointing to that in the lyrics and in the music itself.

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hugrobots
02-13-2009

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the intro of this song is very similar to 'a wolf at the door'

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