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How'd you get your teeth so pearly?
Dew-drop dentures
White-washed faces
She runs from the third world, pearly
Vanilla (feel it crawl to me)
Milkshakes (crawl back again)
From Hard Rock (whatever you say)
Cafes (it won't go away)
That's where (I feel it crawl to me)
She got her (crawls back again)
Sweet tooth (it won't go away)
For white boys (whatever you say)
She runs from the third world, pearly
Hurts me
Darling hurts me
Darling hurts me
Darling hurts me
Dew-drop dentures
White-washed faces
She runs from the third world, pearly
Vanilla (feel it crawl to me)
Milkshakes (crawl back again)
From Hard Rock (whatever you say)
Cafes (it won't go away)
That's where (I feel it crawl to me)
She got her (crawls back again)
Sweet tooth (it won't go away)
For white boys (whatever you say)
She runs from the third world, pearly
Hurts me
Darling hurts me
Darling hurts me
Darling hurts me
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Japan isn't technically in 'the third world' but it doesn't really matter.
''Daddy hurts me''
This makes sense as the song is most likely about the hegemony fostered by the pro colonialist western world, which uses a stark rationalism and seductive ''globalization model'' to influence poorer nations.
The initial lines referencing all things white and ''dew dropped,'' whitewashed faces (or is it fences?) refers to Eurocentrism and the seductiveness of a smile. Even pearls are white, expensive and descriptive of smiles. Whitewashed fences would refer to teeth whitening, the idea of a phony flatterer. Something enhanced or false promises.
The girl in the narrative is two-fold. She's human and she's also a third-world country. She develops her sweet tooth for white boys at Hard Rock Cafes, an obvious reference to willingly falling for ''other'' and the import/export relationship between dominant western countries and third world nations. She has a taste for what she isn't. She's drawn to what appears to be the way. The power, the prestige.
Daddy hurts me is both the idea of a young female being physically brutalized by a male and a small nation falling victim to an unbalanced world economic system.
The song is genious.
I dont know, its too good too hate.
I dont know, its too good too hate.
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How d’you get your teeth so pearly?
Dew drop dentures
White washed faces
She runs from the third world, pearly
Vanilla (feel it closing in)
Milkshakes (calling back again)
From Hard Rock (whatever you say)
Cafes (make it go away)
That's where (I feel it closing in)
She got her (climbing back again)
Sweet tooth (make it go away)
For white boys (whatever you say)
She runs from the third world, pearly
It hurts me
Darling, it hurts me
Darling, it hurts me
Darling, it hurts me
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Even then some of the words aren't entirely credible.
I see it as being hurt by a girl who ran away from her roots and turned her back on history so she could fit in with the modern day crowd. As a result disconnecting herself from everything she did have, so as to fit with the new ‘her’.
More moving, I think, is the ‘It hurts me’ as it actually feels as though it is hurting him. Thom Yorke in my opinion is second to none when it comes to expressing feeling in his songs; lyrics and especially vocals.
Anyway, amazing roll at the end and perfect rift which you can hear hints of throughout more recent tunes. Radiohead certainly influenced the shape music we hear today – no wonder bands like Muse try to copy them!
A girl who is more concerned about what her teeth look like than happenings in the real world, which she tries to ignore, and can only love someone if they look like they fell out of Vouge magazine.
Actually sounds like most of the people I work with