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Can't get the stink off,
He's been hanging around for days
Comes like a comet,
Suckered you but not your friends
One day he'll get to you,
Teach you how to be a holy cow
[Chorus]
You do it to yourself you do
And that's what really hurts is
You do it to yourself just you,
You and no-one else
You do it to yourself
You do it to yourself
Don't get my sympathy hanging out the 15th floor
You've changed the locks 3 times,
He still comes reeling through the door
One day I will get to you
And Teach you how to get to purest hell
[Chorus]
[Chorus]
He's been hanging around for days
Comes like a comet,
Suckered you but not your friends
One day he'll get to you,
Teach you how to be a holy cow
[Chorus]
You do it to yourself you do
And that's what really hurts is
You do it to yourself just you,
You and no-one else
You do it to yourself
You do it to yourself
Don't get my sympathy hanging out the 15th floor
You've changed the locks 3 times,
He still comes reeling through the door
One day I will get to you
And Teach you how to get to purest hell
[Chorus]
[Chorus]
Lyrics submitted by piesupreme
Track duration: 03:55
"Just" as written by Thomas Edward/o'brien Yorke
Lyrics © Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
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"you do it to yourself" is like at the end when the subtitles go and everyone wonders what he says. but if you look closely the man says the one who then it lopes
basically we are making a big deal about nothing
For me, the man's message is a message from, or warning from god, to surrender, and to capitulate to god, especially from anyone who might fear his judgement of their lives - because - from the lyrics - it "comes like a comet". If you've been a bad boy, you're about to introduced to "purest hell".
'you do it on yourself'
hes saying that people know if they keep asking questions about the world and life and stuff they will find them, and they probably wont like them, do you really want t know what the guy on the floor said even though you know it will make you depressed and therefore 'lie on the sidewalk' of course you do, and thats what the song is about
"Zero-One-Zero-One"
Fuck, I love the video even more now.
The song basically says that these people don't deserve sympathy because they also manage to drag others down into the doldrums with their self-pity and depressed nature and that their condition is 'just'
The video illustrates this point perfectly I believe. The man seemingly has nothing to be depressed and despondent about and the other man gets extremely angry at the man's behaviour and inertia. When the man on the floor conveys what has caused him to be lying on the pavement (basically moaned about his life and the way he feels) he drags the rest of them into his misery and they become like him.
That's my take anyway.
Their first hit was a strictly personal view of one's self ("Creep") and other songs from "Pablo Honey" are similarly self-bound, expressing Thom's personal point of view. On "The Bends" the songs begin to explore human relationships more deeply and the songs become more "second person". By "OK Computer" they are looking at modern society as a whole, and the effects of technology on the human condition. Here is where their work becomes truly "post-modern" in the literary sense. On "Kid A" they begin moving beyond physical society into freethought, philosophy, and anarchism, and the themes get more abstract, more highly symbolic.
"Hail to the Thief" has been described by Thom as being about the power games people play on each other, from the personal to the political, so it encapsulates all of the preceding levels.
It's hard to put a theme on "In Rainbows", but having reached a certain pinnacle of literary status and acclaim, Thom now has the ability to reach for his subjects wherever he wishes, and view even older topics in a new light - this is the stage we might call "Post-post-modern".
And then comes "King of Limbs", which takes us deep into and through the mechanical-glitch-modern-stream-of-consciousness and sails right out of it into some of the most "organic" sounding music the boys have ever put down. To me it signifies the return of nature, like trees and grass growing up between the cracks and around the ruins of civilization.
And so throughout their discography Radiohead have recapitulated all of human development, from individual to interpersonal to societal to philosophical to political to the collapse of civilization.
Now the question is... Where do we go next?
This song seems to describe how someone can be so oblivious to the fact that she drives away the people she tries to impress and befriend. Similar to Fyodor Karamazov...only at times, I think he knows exactly what he is doing. Either that, or someone who constantly invites pathological relationships. In either case, the obliviousness of the subject seems key.