Radiohead – Separator

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  General Comment:For me this is definitely about awakening from your mind-made self - the ego or identity that you've created for yourself, which is an abstraction and an illusion. We're so identified with our thoughts that we *become* our thoughts, and it's such a burden - but really, we're the awareness, or consciousness, that perceives the thoughts.
  
  We all need to wake up to our true selves, and see that we are not separate from the world, but a part *of* the world.

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  General Comment:Once again, Thom is revelaing to us his celestial, extratrestrial and galactic origin. He's explaining in my opinon, as he does in so may of his songs the non physical reality that we all will experience when we go into the next dimension. Thom understands this.

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  My Interpretation:Obviously, it's about withdrawing. What he is trying to do, as was Bono on "Bad", is to show that the next phase is going to be wonderful, that love is great, and that it is worth living, and to not kill yourself, and that getting past addiction is like waking up and finally feeling free.

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    And "every woman", is the drug/heroin. That ultimately, blows it's cover, when you have to withdraw.

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    and in the end, the constant struggle that is addiction, once again is given into as he reveals, "If you think this is over, Then you're wrong. When at last you'll give in. Wake me up." And the amazing high returns him to the beginning of the song, "It's like I'm falling out of bed from a long, weary dream." Most definitely Thom's most revealing peice yet, which is why it is the culminating track on the album, and "The Basement Sessions" reveal his love for it. In the act, you can tell he want his mates to FEEL the song, and in the end, he does not want it to end.
    
    
    
    

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  My Interpretation:I interpreted this song so that it could relate to me.
  
  I think it's about someone who has been in the dark about love. They finally found someone who they think is worthwhile and are not willing to give up easily.
  
  He's "fallen out of bed from a long weary dream" because now he feels like he's living and found a purpose. Now he's seeing the world through rose-colored glasses when he talks about the trees and fruits. He has been in love before and is now recovered from that loss suggested by the lyrics "falling off the giant bird that's been carrying me" he is finally released from that past. And then just exactly as I remember because it's a similar feeling to when his first love.
  
  Then with his "heart in his mouth" he feels nervous and excited about love like most people do at first when in love. He then says "In the eye of the beholder" which suggests beauty and that this woman is beautiful to him and now he is a fish out of water. He feels nervous and uncomfortable because he's in love.
  
  I think he possibly expressed his feelings to this woman, "I fell open/ I laid under" he made himself vulnerable and she probably rejected him because "I was just your number" (I was thinking like a number line, people waiting to get to her.)
  
  Now he is not going to give up, "if you think this is over then you're wrong"
  and the echoes of "wake me up" are how he wants to wake up from this lonely slumber and wants to love and be loved again.

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  General Comment:I've had this song on repeat for almost 48 hrs... I can't stop playing it. I am in love. No one is better than Radiohead in my optinion. Best band ever!!!

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    Well, you are awesome!

    Flag ezrashantion December 25, 2012  

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    Well, you are awesome!

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  General Comment:Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. I've read all the interpretations and I still don't get it. I love the band, but some of its tracks are so confusing.

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  General Comment:I think this song is about death and the moment one's spirit crosses over from physical to non-physical. He talks about finally being relieved from the weight he's been carrying, now being a fish out of water... Finally, you just give in and become one with the universe. There's a blissful feeling of peace and tranquility to this song. When he says, "if you think this is over then you're wrong", I think it refers to the fact that death isn't an ending, it's a new beginning. I see life as a long, weary, and vivid dream and finally when you die you are surrounded by a feeling of overwhelming peace and the heaviness in the songs Codex and Give Up the Ghost has been shed and now there's only this airy feeling of freeness and resolve.

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    Exactly. Thom undrstands and is trying to help us understand.

    Flag RunningManon November 23, 2012  
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  General Comment:First of all this is one of the best and most beautiful radiohead songs ever.
  
  Does anyone else hear this as well.....when he says
  "I've my heart in my mouth"
  ...it sounds layered to where it almost sounds like he is saying "in my mind" on top of it.

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  Lyric Correction:It's like I'm falling out of bed
  From a long, vivid dream
  The sweetest flowered fruits are hanging from the tree
  Falling off the giant bird that's been carrying me
  It's like I'm falling out of bed
  From a long and vivid dream
  Just exactly as I remember
  Every word
  Every gesture
  
  I've a heart in my mouth
  Like I'm falling out of bed
  From a long, vivid dream
  Finally I'm free of all the weight I've been carrying
  
  And as that woman blows her cover
  In the eye of the beholder
  I'm a fish now out of water
  Falling off the giant bird that's been carrying me
  
  I fell open
  I laid under
  At the tip out
  Lost your number
  I want to slip over
  And get back under
  
  And if you think this is over
  Then you're wrong
  If you think this is over
  Then you're wrong
  If you think this is over
  Then you're wrong
  
  (Wake me up, wake me up)
  If you think this is over
  Then you're wrong
  (Wake me up, wake me up)
  Like I'm falling out of bed
  From a long, vivid dream
  Finally I'm free of all the weight I've been carrying
  
  When at last you give in
  When at last you give in
  Wake me up, wake me up
  Wake me up, wake me up
  Wake me up, wake me up
  Wake me up, wake me up
  

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  General Comment:i think he might be saying
  "i've a hook in my mouth".
  it would make sense given the later lyric of "i'm a fish now out of water"
  as if he's been yanked back to reality from his ideal dream state.
  

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