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I'm on a roll,
I'm on a roll to success
I feel my luck could change
Kill me Sarah,
Kill me again with love,
It's gonna be a glorious day
Pull me out of the aircrash,
Pull me out of the lake,
'Cause I'm your superhero,
We are standing on the edge
The head of state has called for me by name
But I don't have time for him
It's gonna be a glorious day
I feel my luck could change
Pull me out of the aircrash,
Pull me out of the lake,
'Cause I'm your superhero,
We are standing on the edge
We are standing on the edge
I'm on a roll to success
I feel my luck could change
Kill me Sarah,
Kill me again with love,
It's gonna be a glorious day
Pull me out of the aircrash,
Pull me out of the lake,
'Cause I'm your superhero,
We are standing on the edge
The head of state has called for me by name
But I don't have time for him
It's gonna be a glorious day
I feel my luck could change
Pull me out of the aircrash,
Pull me out of the lake,
'Cause I'm your superhero,
We are standing on the edge
We are standing on the edge
Lyrics submitted by mike, edited by Yazardshir, 312keyo, bkabbott
Track duration: 04:20
"Lucky" as written by Thomas Yorke, Edward John O'brien, Colin Charles Greenwood, Jonathan Richard Guy Greenwood, Philip Selway
Lyrics © Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
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but thats just me
No resentment, no jealousy, just the hope/belief that one day he will be the hero/savior of someone/anything/sarah
Thoughts?
'Cause I'm your superhero. We are standing on the edge."
This bit brings to mind a relationship between a man and a woman where the man feels like a wreck(aircrash), he's unstable and depressed(drowning in a lake) and he's looking to the woman to make him well, to pull him out of it so he can be a man for her, her superhero. He says this with irony as he doesn't see himself in that way, in that old fashioned way where a man was idolized by the woman and seen as some sort of a solid rock or a savior that every woman needed. A man was supposed to be the stronger one, and he feels inept.
For some reason this song reminds me of the relationship between The Narrator and Marla in Fight Club and specifically the ending scene where they're standing by the window on the highest floor of a skyscraper looking at the collapsing creditcard buildings, the destruction of the moneysystem. They're on the edge both literally and metaphorically. But I doubt this song has any actual connection to that movie.
To me this is a beautiful song about disillusionment and dysfunction and that ending scene is one of the most romantic endings to a movie I've ever seen.
Also when he sings "I'm on a roll" and "I feel my luck could change" and "It's gonna be a glorious day"... To me that sounds like a depressed person who's been struggling and relapsing with the same issue for a long time and today's one of those days when he feels optimistic about the situation, like something might be different and maybe things will change. But maybe, he sort of knows, deep down, that it won't last and so there's an underlying desperation and an ironic tone to calling the day "glorious". He's sort of on a temporary high for the day.
That's just my interpretation.
Here is what THOM YORKE himself said about Lucky back in a 1998 interview:
"Any artist wants to include everything. And then they discover that their best pieces of work are the ones where they haven't said any of the things they thought they were going to say.
'Lucky' was like that - (it) was pages and pages and pages of notes, none of which fitted in at all. It was all bollocks. It was trying to be really political. And in the end it wasn't. It was much better to say, "The head of state has called for me by name/But I don't have time for him." And that was it."
Granted, Thom still doesn't go into detail regarding the song's actual meaning - but IMO this quote gives credence to the view that the lyrics contain a definite political sub-text, even though no specific event or global issue is overtly described.
Personally, I'm guessing that the narrator is some kind of lone maverick, vigilante or political/religious fundamentalist; someone who believes there is glory in dying 'for the cause'.
The song is told from this person's radical POV so that the (supposedly) positive-sounding references to their true situation ("it's gonna be a glorious day" / "my luck could change" / "I'm your superhero") are the result of their own skewed/blinkered mindset.
It's gonna be a glorious day - just a day, relaxed, with love and no life challenges etc. That's all he wants.
Hope this makes sense.
Losing identity.