Lyrics for Idioteque as interpreted by piesupreme

Idioteque Lyrics
Who's in a bunker?
Who's in a bunker?
Women and children first
And the children first
And the children
I'll laugh until my head comes off
I'll swallow until I burst
Until I burst
Until I

Who's in a bunker?
Who's in a bunker?
I have seen too much
I haven't seen enough
You haven't seen it
I'll laugh until my head comes off
Women and children first
And children first
And children

Here I'm allowed
Everything all of the time
Here I'm allowed
Everything all of the time

Ice age coming
Ice age coming
Let me hear both sides
Let me hear both sides
Let me hear both
Ice age coming
Ice age coming
Throw it on the fire
Throw it on the fire
Throw it on the

We're not scaremongering
This is really happening
Happening
We're not scaremongering
This is really happening
Happening
Mobiles skwerking
Mobiles chirping
Take the money and run
Take the money and run
Take the money

Here I'm allowed
Everything all of the time
Here I'm allowed
Everything all of the time

Here I'm allowed
Everything all of the time
Here I'm allowed
Everything all of the time

The first of the children

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Persian Boy
01-27-2006

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Finally...

Finally i understand what is about:

the BUNKER means ASS

WOMEN AND CHILDREN are the symbols the bitch and gay person

and its about ass-fucking all of the mother-fuckings that like this fucking song

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freezegelman
02-10-2006

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Umm yeah, Persian Boy...

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rogerwaters987
02-13-2006

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Ok, so I've been listening to Radiohead for some time now, but one of my friends recently noticed that KID A (my favorite album of theirs) spelled backwards is "A DIK" (as in A DICK, if you can't figure it out). I seriously think that this could be a little pun of Thom's. There are many little excerpts in this album that have to do with the male genetalia. For example, in Idioteque:

"I'll swallow until I burst" (What's he swallowing? A DIK?)

From "Everything In It's Right Place":

"Yesterday I woke up sucking a lemon." (The lemon is obviously, well, you know...)

From the song "KID A":

"We've got heads on sticks" (Penis heads on shafts?)

And "Morning Bell":

"Coming down the chimney, release me, release me" (Cumming down his chimney, release him, release him?)

You probably think I'm just a kid making fun of the album, but I think Radiohead one of the most original bands around now, the theory of the first clone also seems to flow with the album better, but I thought this was really funny. Do you think it's a coincidence? Or more than a coincidence? I think Radiohead has quite a sense of humor. Please tell me what you think! Again, I don't think that the album KID A is about knobs and cocks, but I think it could definetely be a hidden meaning.

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atomsplitter
02-15-2006

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Zeprot's interpretation is swell.

And the global warming ones are cheesy.

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foolican
02-16-2006

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The shear beauty of this is that it can be applied to almost anything. The description that are given are so vague that all it takes is a creative mind to interpret them to however it sees fit. Personally I think that it's about the Holocaust, but it could easily be anything, or everything else.

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MustardInspector
02-18-2006

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This is my favorite song on the album. A lot of these interpretations are accurate in my book.

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hflevack
04-05-2006

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The song talks about a host of problems, but I think you need to think cumulitively.

Mankind has all these horrible issues that may just wipe us out, but we don't pay any attention because we are too obsessed with human drama.

The main idea, I think, is stop thinking about that girlfriend or that new car, and start thinking about the earth and the world around you.

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mudstaind
04-09-2006

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This song makes me think of the panic that ensues w/ apocalypse... the fast beats and eerie synth accompany the song perfectly. Best song on Kid A!

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lacuna112
04-09-2006

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Farhad, You are an Idiot.
Your ignorance is so great I won't even start on it. You have to realise that Radiohead and Nirvana are on different GENRES altogether. Nirvana is essential grunge , radiohead is every form of rock music, - pablo honey , bends were essentially riff based alternative, onto ok computer onwards were they went completely art rock , producing a masterpiece nevertheless. Kid A and amnesiac were experimental, but not one fucking person here can deny the genius that lies therein. So what's your point?
Last time I checked Nirvana were/are/might still more popular than almost any other 90's band , so Radiohead haven't ruined ANYTHING, they've transformed the music of their time into original, brilliant masterpieces. Just like Nirvana did in their time - by revolutionising grunge.
So if you want to talk sh!t about radiohead, take it elsewhere. Be grateful that there is still real music out there, and be grateful to the genius that is Radiohead.
Or we'd drown in the artificial bubble pop world of BS and gangsta hip/hop.
Sorry about that to everyone else, this song has more than one interpretation , it's just Radiohead being their ironic, experimental best.
Cheers.

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AlAnAP0563
04-18-2006

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Alright first verse:

Who's in a bunker?
Who's in a bunker?
Women and children first
And the children first
And the children
I'll laugh until my head comes off
I'll swallow until I burst
Until I burst
Until I
My initial thought was insensitivity.
"whos in a bunker" refers to a brainwashed soldier.
"Women and children first" reminds me of killing the women and children.
Being completely insensitive and laughing.
"Swallow until i burst"- remorse.

Second verse:
"i have seen to much" which you can relate to my previous paragraph.

Thats all i get.
Ahh i love this song.

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mojo_pin
05-03-2006

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its a three way conversation between
1) the people who insist that global warming is a serioius threat
2) the people who insist that its not as big a problem as we are led to believe
3) the people in the middle, who dont know which sideto believe

"Who's in a bunker?
Who's in a bunker?
Women and children first
And the children first
And the children "

said by (1), predicting what could happen if we continue the way we're going

"I'll laugh until my head comes off"

said by (2), saying its a load of shit

"I have seen too much
I haven't seen enough"

said by (3), who is clearly confused and doesnt know who to believe

"Ice age coming
Ice age coming
Let me hear both sides
Let me hear both sides
Let me hear both
Ice age coming
Ice age coming
Throw it on the fire
Throw it on the fire
Throw it on the "

said by (1)

"We're not scaremongering
This is really happening
Happening
We're not scaremongering
This is really happening
Happening
Mobiles skwerking
Mobiles chirping "

also said by (1), saying that they are not trying to needlessly scare people but that this is a problem that needs to be addressed

"Here I'm allowed
Everything all of the time"

this refers to the earth's resources, though im not sure who says. its most likely that its (2), who thinks there is plenty of natural resources and we dont need to worry

that's what i think

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Cam-win
05-25-2006

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I'm agreeing with Mojo Pin on this song. Especially because of the "Ice Caps Melting" T-Shirt

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Cam-win
06-08-2006

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On this Radiohead DVD I have, instead of singing "I have seen too much/I haven't seen enough", Thom shakes his finger at the audience and sings "You haven't seen enough/None of you have seen enough". I, without a doubt, think this song is about global warming.

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shagwell
06-18-2006

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lyrics are incorrect -
instead of

"Here I'm allowed
Everything all of the time"

it SHOULD be

"Here I'm alive
anything all of the time"

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n_hall
06-19-2006

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http://web.mac.com/scanlon.tom/iWeb/Site/Music%20Videos.html

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SoYouSailedAwayx
07-01-2006

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I was too lazy to read other peoples comments so if this has already been stated sorry- I think the majority of this song is about global warming. Oh well. :)

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Nonlinear314
07-12-2006

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Global Warming, the end of civilization, anarchy. Go to the bunker to escape the killing, send the women and children first. People are too self-absorbed to care about the future (here and now, everything all of the time).

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aocrkid
07-16-2006

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someone should kill the director of the hand that feeds video by nine inch nails

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blame_monster
07-28-2006

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Not to beat a dead horse or anything, but I, as the 169th person to comment on this song would just like to say that this song has always been my favorite radiohead song, and good lord it gives me the willies... for so many reasons.

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palms
08-17-2006

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First verse:
Ridiculing and noting the danger of a type of morality in which someone or some government or whatever can create a world which needs bunkers and then still insist on 'women and children first'.

Second:
Predicting a bad future (ice age coming) when associated with people or governments who have the above take on morality. And concluding that reasoning with these people is useless (as let me hear both sides is replaced with throw it on the fire), instead you have to just get away from it (take the money and run).

chorus:
'here im allowed everything all of the time' might be in reference to a amoral existence, or at least amoral if the above morality is considered moral. Because now he lacks the shitty rules like 'women and children first' which surely arnt in the same realm of morality as 'killing is bad'.

last line:
fisrt of the children -saying that this is a new begining (rejecting the morality of the fisrt verse)

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LIVELIKENOTOMRROW
08-17-2006

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Wow.AMAZING SONG TIMES 10000000!!!!
*sighs* I think radiohead likes to mess with our head.
Actully no MY HEAD.
I hope it's no about pollution.
No i am not some cold heartless person that does not care about that I do I REALLY DO.
But the lyrics are so great. And I hope its about something a bit more dramatic. you know? Please don't get me wrong that is just my opinion. Anyways say bye to molly
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LIVELIKENOTOMRROW
08-17-2006

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Oh yah and I just read some toehr comments. (just to lazy right now =] )
But I am sorta starting to agree with people (witch doesn't happen alot =]!!!!)
It might be about global warming.
anyways yah
poptarts.

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Conacha
08-18-2006

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Amazing song...

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sortilegus
08-29-2006

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something cool i noticed, in the first verse he isn't repeating "and the children," he says,
"Women and children first
of the children
first of the children"

Also if you wear headphones and turn it up pretty loud you can hear him repeating "the first of the children" during the refrain towards the end. Just adds to the whole concept of a "Kid A" being the first clone.

i noticed this as well, he's saying something underneath
"This is really happening
Happening
We're not scaremongering
This is really happening
Happening
Mobiles skwerking
Mobiles chirping
Take the money and run
Take the money and run
Take the money"

he repeats the same sentence underneath that verse a few times here, but there's no way i can make it out.

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PaperStreet
09-01-2006

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Scaremongering is just a different way to say "fearmongering"

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