Lyrics for Harrowdown Hill as interpreted by black_cow_of_death

Harrowdown Hill Lyrics
Don't walk the plank like I did
You will be dispensed with
When you've become inconvenient
Up on Harrowdown Hill
Where you used to go to school
Thats where I am
Thats where I'm lying down

Did I fall or was I pushed?
Did I fall or was I pushed?
And wheres the blood?
And wheres the blood?

I'm coming home
I'm coming home
To make it all right
So dry your eyes

We think the same things at the same time
We just cant do anything about it

So don't ask me
Ask the ministry
Don't ask me
Ask the ministry

We think the same things at the same time
There are so many of us
So you can't count

We think the same things at the same time
There are too many of us
So you can't count

Can you see me when I'm running?
Can you see me when I'm running?
Away from them

I can't take their pressure
No one cares if you live or die
They just want me gone
They want me gone

I'm coming home
I'm coming home
To make it all right
So dry your eyes

We think the same things at the same time
We just cant do anything about it

We think the same things at the same time
There are too many of us
So you can't count

I was lured into the back of Harrowdown Hill
It was me lured into the back of Harrowdown Hill
I was lured into the back of Harrowdown Hill
It was a slippery slippery slippery slope
It was a slippery slippery slippery slope
I feel me slipping in and out of consciousness
I feel me slipping in and out of consciousness
I feel me...

Interaction
Mail to a friend Send Lyrics to a Friend
Share on Facebook

Stumble It
Add to Del.icio.us Add to Del.icio.us




  • 62 Comments
  • Printer Friendly Lyrics
oldest first     Expand All
imissiancurtis
05-31-2006

Rated 0 
favorite on the album, actually. incredible.

Log in to reply
1 Reply
Nodima
05-31-2006

Rated 0 
there's a mumbled part right before the final four lines, and i think it goes:

"there was me open to the back up of harrowdown hill" or "back open" or something along those lines. anyone with a better view of it?

Log in to reply
Nodima
05-31-2006

Rated 0 
there's a mumbled part right before the final four lines, and i think it goes:

"there was me open to the back up of harrowdown hill" or "back open" or something along those lines. anyone with a better view of it?

Log in to reply
The_Bends
06-01-2006

Rated 0 
I have no idea how to interpret this song.

But meaning aside, this song is amazing!

Log in to reply
SphagnumEsplanade
06-02-2006

Rated 0 
Wow, my favorite song on the album. I think it's one of the many songs on here about political activism. He wants to lead the change and he's telling the people who think like him that they need to stand up.

Log in to reply
SphagnumEsplanade
06-02-2006

Rated 0 
Nevermind, I was thinking about the title and just remembered that Harrowdown Hill was where Dr. David Kelly's body was found. This makes me think the song is about suicide along with what I mentioned earlier, maybe.

Log in to reply
bowsandtulips
06-02-2006

Rated -1 
Who's Thom Yorke and when did he become a musician? Is he any good? What genre of music does he play? Should I go buy one of his CD's?

Log in to reply
1 Reply
thecolorsblue
06-02-2006

Rated 0 
thom yorke is the vocalist of Radiohead.
one of the most gifted songwriters out there.

Log in to reply
teeseff
06-03-2006

Rated 0 
Google takes the cake on this one. Harrowdown Hill was the location where Dr. David Kelly, an Iraqi specialist was killed 'unexplainably'. The whole thing is quite heavy in controversy, and, in all honestly, I don't quite understand the whole thing quite yet... anyhow, that's what the song is on.

Log in to reply
strokephantom
06-04-2006

Rated 0 
yea thats definetly what its about. now that im reading over it

Log in to reply
lulabelle
06-04-2006

Rated 0 
Dr. David Kelly isn't iraqi. haha I was like ..that's not an arabic name...so i looked it up, no he's not a specialist either..he was a bomb inspector. apparently he killed himself. not just ODing, but slitting his wrists too. he musta really wanted to die...

Log in to reply
robbro7
06-06-2006

Rated +2 
There are some who believe Kelly didn't kill himself.

This song is written from his eyes, either way. "Coming home" is either his journey into the afterlife or perhaps even a declaration that he did indeed plan to go home, but someone made sure he didn't make it.

It's ambiguous statements like that that make Yorke brilliant.

Log in to reply
teeseff
06-07-2006

Rated 0 
no HE wasn't Iraqi...

found that he was a UN weapons inspector in Iraq though, also looked up http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Kelly

His talk with a journalist about the British government's dossier on weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in Iraq inadvertently caused a major political scandal, and he was found dead days after appearing before a Parliamentary committee investigating it. The Hutton Inquiry, a public inquiry into his death, ruled that he had committed suicide.

Log in to reply
spiralled
06-08-2006

Rated 0 
One of the e-mails [David Kelly] sent [on the day of his death] was to New York Times journalist Judith Miller, who had used Kelly as a source in a book on bioterrorism, to whom Kelly mentioned "many dark actors playing games".
(from his Wiikipedia entry)

..Well. Make of that what you will.

As for the song itself, it's my favourite on the album so far.

Log in to reply
nishadham
06-16-2006

Rated 0 
Best one. All fits together, gorgeouslike. Thom Yorke, thank you so much.

Log in to reply
bradr
06-19-2006

Rated +1 
Did I fall or was I pushed?
Did I fall or was I pushed?
And wheres the blood?
And wheres the blood?

From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Kelly

"the two paramedics who were called to the scene of Kelly's death, have since gone public with their view that there was not enough blood at the location to justify the belief that he died from blood loss. Bartlett and Hunt told The Guardian that they saw a small amount of blood on plants near Kelly's body and a patch of blood the size of a coin on his trousers. They said they would expect to find several pints of blood at the scene of a suicide involving an arterial cut"

From: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/5092160.stm

Radiohead's Thom Yorke has said a track on his solo album about the suicide of scientist Dr David Kelly is "the most angry song I've ever written"

Log in to reply
1 Reply
Rager
07-11-2006

Rated 0 
Easily my fav song on the new CD, if not Black Swan.

Log in to reply
eatenbytheworms
07-19-2006

Rated 0 
The last part of the songs' lyrics are:

it was me led into the backroom
harrowdown hill
it was me led into the backroom
harrowdown hill
it was a slippery slippery slippery slope
it was a slippery slippery slippery slope
i feel me slipping in and out of consciousness
i feel me slipping in and out of consciousness
i feel me...

Log in to reply
fragmentation
07-26-2006

Rated 0 
Corrected lyrics:

Dont walk the plank like I did,
You will be dispensed with
When you've become inconvienent
Upon Harrowdown Hill
Where you used to go to school

Thats where I am
Thats where I'm lying down

Did I fall or was I pushed?
Did I fall or was I pushed?
And wheres the blood?
And wheres the blood?

I'm coming home
I'm coming home
To make it all right
So dry your eyes

We think the same things at the same time
We just cant do anything about it

So don't ask me
Ask the ministry
Don't ask me
Ask the ministry

We think the same things at the same time
There are so many of us
So you can't count

We think the same things at the same time
There are too many of us
So you can't count

Can you see me when I'm running?
Can you see me when I'm running?
Away from them

I can't take their pressure
No one cares if you live or die
They just want me gone
They want me gone

I'm coming home
I'm coming home
To make it all right
So dry your eyes

We think the same things at the same time
We just cant do anything about it

We think the same things at the same time
There are too many of us
So you can't count

(It has me led to the backroom)
Harrowdown Hill
(it has me led to the backroom)
Harrowdown Hill
it was a slippery slippery slippery slope
it was a slippery slippery slippery slope
i feel me slipping in and out of consciousness
i feel me slipping in and out of consciousness
i feel me...

Log in to reply
britpopforever
07-30-2006

Rated 0 
"This song slips into the head of David Kelly - the British whistle-blower who committed suicide after alleging that Tony Blair had oversold the case for war in Iraq- creating a portrait of anger and futility thats overwhelmingly sad." according to TIME Magazine

Log in to reply
jamzefisher
08-03-2006

Rated 0 
"Where you used to go to school
Thats where I am
Thats where I'm lying down"

Could be a link with Thom Yorke's childhood here too. I was at the same primary school as Thom in a village called Standlake - only a few miles from where David Kelly died.

Log in to reply
bloc_party15
08-04-2006

Rated 0 
i really do like this song

Log in to reply
brittni07
08-04-2006

Rated 0 
this is such a sad song on it's own, and even sadder once you find out what it's about

Log in to reply
peace_love_empathy
08-12-2006

Rated 0 
the video for this is great and its my 2nd faourite on the album after analyze

Log in to reply
LikeYouMeantIt
08-24-2006

Rated +1 
Ya.. Dr. David Kelley's death was "suicide", but there were a lot of holes. He had apparently consumed a number of analgesic tablets and then slit his wrists... causing him to die from "blood loss".

Here's the catch...

It was his ulnar arteries that "he" slit. Definately minor arteries. Considering the guy was in fact a doctor, I would assume he would know going for the radial artery would be more effective.

On another point, there was a minimal amount of blood to be found at the scene... definately not enough to be cause of death, particularily when cold air would cause vasoconstriction and inhibit the amount of blood.

Despite the fact that there wouldnt be enough blood loss to kill, slicing the ulnar artery should have resulted in a larger amount of blood loss than what was found. Only a couple random spots of blood were found, and with an artery being slit, there should have been copious amounts in comparison.

There is way too much information for me to keep going, but ya... if anyone is interested in this information and more details, go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Kelly.

This way you will also know that I'm not just winging the information. :)

Cheers!

Log in to reply
1 Reply




  • Add Your Comments
What does this song mean to you?

You must be logged in to post your comments.

Feel free to create an account with us, or log in with your existing account, to start adding your comments to songs.





Popular
Top:   Lyrics, Artists, Albums
Random:   Lyric, Artist, Album

Your Ad Here