I want to see you smile again
Like diamonds in the dust
The amazing sound of the killing hordes
The day the banks collapse on us

Cease this endless chattering
Like everything is fine
When sorry is not good enough
Sit in the back while no-one drives

So glad, so glad you're mine
So glad, so glad you're mine
So glad, so glad you're mine
So glad, so glad you're mine



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"The Amazing Sounds of Orgy" as written by Thomas Edward/greenwood Yorke

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    General Comment:It's about the collapse of the banks in the use -- good call HijackedAffairs!

    How do I know -- Thom Yorke told me (well he told everyone at the Broomfield, CO show in March 2012: youtube.com/… )
    Flag tmsimonton April 25, 2012   Link
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    General Comment:Doesn't anyone remember the karma police video? What is thom doing?
    Flagged lalalamrssaigonon January 07, 2011   Link
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    General Comment:This song speaks to me so much because of the strong link to this kind of anxoius, monotonous worry. I get these things that are most closely described as a panic attack... Although from what I've heard of LSD, it almost sounds more like a trip. I see spots and go into tunnel vision and get incredibly paranoid and start mumbling strings of words. I don't think I'm crazy (haha) but basically, this song feels exactly like these trip/panic attack things. And I've never done drugs, so I don't have much of a comparison... But I feel a kind of connectedness to Thom Yorke in this way. We're both slightly crazy... We see the world in a way that scares the shit out of us, but we also know how we're supposed to behave. And it's scary as hell. Maybe we're kindred spirits, or maybe we're both just insane. But to me, this song doesn't even have a meaning except for the extreme, insane fear that accompanies the ability to see the world for what it is, and the fear of accepting the denial in return for some false peace of mind.
    Flag Elysium18on October 12, 2010   Link
  • +1
    General Comment:Basically outlines what is happening in the United States.
    Flag HijackedAffairson October 06, 2010   Link
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    General Comment:"I want to see you smile again
    Like diamonds in the dust"--> Her smile is tragically beautiful.
    Symbolises a true but disfunctional love.

    "The amazing sound of the killing hordes
    The day the banks collapse on us"--> Glorifying the 'end of the world' or the collapse of a city.
    Making the dysfunctional sound beautiful.

    "Cease this endless chattering
    Like everything is fine"--> stop talking mindless conversation as if everything is fine. This is probably making reference to both the collapse of the world and the collapse of themselves.

    "When sorry is not good enough"-->It's too late, and whatever damage has been done.

    "Sit in the back while no one drives"--> The feeling of being out of control.

    "I'm so glad you're mine"-->This has to be my favourite line in the song. It is so sarcastic to me. It seems like he is saying it as if he is dellusional. As if they arn't his at all, but he is hoplessly sing ing it as if it will make it true.

    Thats my take on the song really.
    Flag veganstarduston October 05, 2010   Link
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    General Comment:Yea thats the point.Radiohead are Oxford boys,upper crust, they've had a privaleged vantage point to oversee whats been coming for at least a decade or more. I mean, where else do you think the paranoid, apoclayptic vibe of their stuff comes from?

    Has anyone ever seen 'Meeting People is Easy'? The band film where it shows them uncomfortably dealing with new found fame?

    As i remember, theres a very brief snippet where frustrated THom is sitting down trying to explain economics to an uninterested interviewer. He's basically laying out our current predicament to a T and yet at the time it was taken as just more adorable eccentricty from an overly cerebral rock band (this had to be '97, '98).

    Seeing that part of movie really makes something like Kid A make more sense. Radiohead miserbalism has never been a pose, more like a cause

    Flag Hungryforalynchinon August 25, 2010   Link
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    General Comment:You've got to admit, this song predicts the recession with an inhuman clarity.
    Flag drowninyoursleepon September 19, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:"the puce synthetic voice that says were fine
    limitless scenarios
    limitless channels
    on which to watch
    who was right
    and who was wrong.
    who was right
    and who was wrong.
    who was right
    and who was wrong."

    a snippet from an older version of their site
    Flag l3naon March 14, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:So...perhaps this isn't the best interpretation of the lyrics, and I apologize in advance, but this song makes me wanna f like crazy.
    Flag alysia56on March 10, 2009   Link
  • -5
    General Comment:don't want to make you sick...
    but i read a drama once about a father who sexually abused his innocent young daughter.
    and this song fits in with the story for me.
    i don't think that this was the intended story from Yorke, and i really hope not to be honest!
    but it does have an amazingly disgusting eerie feel to it that makes me relate it to that story.

    'i want to see you smile again...'
    'so glad you're mine'
    you can see the father lookin down on her.

    'sorry is not good enough'
    this is her punishment...

    sorry if i've ruined the song for anyone!!
    Flag rhllwydon March 21, 2008   Link

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