Lyrics for Bones as interpreted by piesupreme

Bones Lyrics
I don't want to be crippled-cracked
Shoulders, wrists, knees, and back
Ground to dust and ash
Crawling on all fours
When you've got to feel it in your bones
Now I can't climb the stairs
Pieces missing everywhere
Prozac painkillers
When you've got to feel it in your bones
And I used to fly like Peter Pan
All the children flew when I touched their hands

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OwnPersonalDemon
05-19-2002

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This song is the theme song to my life....the way he uses physical pain as a metaphor for mentalanguish is amazing....I just can totally connect to this song....and relate.....

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deadeye093
07-10-2002

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Basically, when all these physical ailments and numbing medications are pressed into us, we lose the intuition and humanity that makes us the way people are, and we seriously miss out.

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Emberly
12-11-2004

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this song is so beautiful. Thom has an AMAZING aptitude for making a song mean exactly what he is feeling. you can truly hear his emotions when you listen to this song.

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b_dog
01-19-2005

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This is my favorite song off of The Bends.

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Moses19
02-01-2005

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me too, b_dog

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deadbluesky
02-20-2005

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this is my favorite radiohead song ever and i think it has something to do with a reoccuring theme that Thom had in the older days of living healthy and being fit and happy (as we later see it reenforced in OK Computer). this is him worrying about not being healthy and what the first guy said as well.

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RdeC
05-02-2005

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Best song off The Bends? Really? The lyrics are far too obvious in their meaning, the song itself is bad (can't stand that bass), plus Just, The Bends, Planet Telex, My Iron Lung, Street Spirit and High & Dry are ten times better.

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b_dog
06-13-2005

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We have different criteria, obviously. Even if a song as 'obvious' lyrics that's not necessarily a knock against the song. I don't think 'depth in meaning' of song lyrics has any correlation with the quality, or at least my enjoyment, of the song. For me, this is an awesome song, just on a pure enjoyment level.

Just, The Bends, and My Iron Lung are all good songs, too...although I don't like the other songs you mention...Planet Telex, Street Spirit, High & Dry are the handful of Radiohead songs I don't care for. I know Sreet Spirit is a big fan favorite but I think it's majorly overrated compared to the dozens of other great Radiohead songs.

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Spin
07-01-2005

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I think the dude is saying "I hope I die before I get old" and start to reek of decay. Or some such shit.

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its_meeee!
07-12-2005

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I agree with what the last person said. He doesn't want to face being little more than helpless when he could "fly like perter pan." Also I can't believe this is a favourite. I mean high and dry and Just are much, much better..........but each to their own I suppose.

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Kid C
11-13-2005

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Nice Dream. How can that not be a favorite? Best song off the Bends and the reason I got into radiohead. I guess everyone's intitled to their own wrong opinion.

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Plural
12-15-2005

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Let's start with the first verse: the description of what typically happens when humans grow old. The second verse is much the same, read it. The chorus You've got to feel it in your bones means to me that life is worthless without passion and desire (which fades with age). The middle 8 (Flying like Peter Pan) Refers to be believe that everyone has that they will never grow old and that when certain people are filled with passion and share it, others will follow because they want a piece of that feeling (hence Radiohead's massive success).

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waking_life_n_y_c
12-18-2005

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Best song on The Bends...Fake plastic trees!. How did that get overlooked?
'gravity always wins'

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followmearround
01-28-2006

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This is my favorite radiohead song of all time.. and as far as the lyrics being obvious,,, so what? why does it have to be complicated to be good? even the music is so simple but awesome, jonny's guitar is so easy here, i think thats why i love it so much...

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RadioheadxxSlave
02-11-2006

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Radiohead can make even the darkest songs so upbeat and lovely to listen to. I was at complete peace when I heard this song for the first time while I was in the car, wearing my shades and the wind blowing through my hair. They just seemed to go perfectly together.

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FakePlasticTyler
02-22-2006

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i used to fly like Peter Pan
all the children flew when i touched their hands

that line just kills me.
simple yet brilliant.

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DamnDJ
03-27-2006

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I really do love this song and it's one of my favorties off of The Bends. While I do enjoy Radiohead's lryics, it's not the lryics that make this song for me. It's the chorus. A brilliant song.

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Mephisto77
11-17-2007

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Fear of aging.

The instrumentation feels real Pixies-esque, similar to Stop Whispering on Pablo Honey.

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smoth
11-21-2007

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I love the way they perform this song live. Thom jumping up and snarling at the crowd. Fantastic. I've never been able to figure out what it's about, unlike most radiohead songs where I usually have my own little interpretation. This one leaves me stumped.

To say its absolutely uncomplicated and must be about aging is a little presumptuous. I mean when you get old are your wrists, knees and back broken? are you ground to dust and ash? do you crawl? no. as for climbing the stairs, couldnt this be metaphorical, and prozac is an anti-depressant is it not?

I believe that whoever thinks this song is simple is probably wrong. For me, like all radiohead songs, there is more to it than meets the eye.

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FoKis
02-09-2008

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someone said to me that on in this song it is so obvious that radiohead are influenced by u2.......except from the lyrics.....and thoms voice....... and the electronic stuff that is heard in the backround...... i couldnt agree more!!

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chrisretard90
03-04-2008

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in my eyes i see it as being about not wanting to ask for help or not being able to ask for help when you need it most.

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solent
04-18-2008

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I feel the people who are putting a physical interpretation on this song are being far too literal.

If you have ever suffered severe depression you will know that it not only affects you mentally, but physically too. You get tired, your limbs feel lifeless, like you don't have the energy to move them. You feel broken. You can literally feel the depression in your bones.

"Now I can't climb the stairs" refers to the struggle to climb out of the depression.

"Pieces missing everywhere/Prozac painkillers" is obviously the anti-depressants which numb the pain but leave you emotionally lifeless.

And "And I used to fly like Peter Pan/All the children flew when I touched their hands" refers to the times before the depression when (at least looking back) it felt like anything and everything was possible.

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Harm88
08-07-2008

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Bones refers to the core of somebody. Not literally bones but what is at the center and makes you you. When you are broken, cracked, crushed etc. inside, you can't do metaphorical stair climbing etc. You are broken and crawling through life. Maybe you are even taking Prozac so you don't feel so shitty about it. Oh yah, and you miss a time when you were whole inside and you could do all the things you wanted to do.

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daisy123
08-28-2008

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I totally agree with solent.

You summed it up really well.
I don't really think it has anything to do with getting older. It's just about himself feeling down, and its affecting him physically.

In some ways, I also see it as, he might be comparing his sad feelings to physical feelings. Even though people can't see his feelings, if they could, that is what he'd be like- crippled etc.

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