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In my mind
And nailed into my heels
All the time killin' what I feel
And everything I touch turns into stone
All wrapped up in crinoline
All wrapped up in sugar-coated
Just in case I blow out
I am glued
Just in case I crack out
And everything I touch turns to stone
Everything I touch turns to stone
All wrapped up in crinoline
All wrapped up in sugar-coated
And nailed into my heels
All the time killin' what I feel
And everything I touch turns into stone
All wrapped up in crinoline
All wrapped up in sugar-coated
Just in case I blow out
I am glued
Just in case I crack out
And everything I touch turns to stone
Everything I touch turns to stone
All wrapped up in crinoline
All wrapped up in sugar-coated
Lyrics submitted by piesupreme, edited by saysrachel
Track duration: 04:42
"Blow Out" as written by Thomas Edward/selway Yorke
Lyrics © Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
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For me, the song is about a person who has spent their life with an overwhelming tendency toward romanticism, paired with an unfortunate, overshadowing fear of heartbreak. The result of which is one desperately reaching out, and then desperately fleeing the scene, trying to forget, crawling into one's cocoon, wearing the mask of cavalier, unable to act, but ultimately regretting inaction. The song is a hot river of emotion imploding in itself because he's too repressed to truly "crack out" into the volcano that it implores.
It turns to stone.
TY has apparently said he has suffered bipolar disorder and I think this is to do with the lyrics in this song. When a manic phase (such as I seem to have been in for the last few weeks/months) is fading away it's like all the air coming out of your tyres or something.
"In my mind
And nailed into my heels [=stuck in my shoes, ie unable to put myself in another's place, also not responding quickly enough to what's happening)
All the time killin' what I feel [no flow or life to my feelings)
And everything I touch
(all wrapped up in cotton wool)
(all wrapped up in sugar-coated pills) [all sort of insulated from me, oversensitive to my perhaps harsh, but also crashing mood)
turns to stone"
Just my interpretation.
I agree it's a really nice song -one of those you don't automaticallly think of as great, but it lingers andmakes a very special, unique imprint.
I love Pablo Honey, even if TY doesn't!
That's my take on it anyway!
(Incidentally, the band Silverchair have a song referencing the anti-Midas touch phenominon, called The Man Who Knew Too Much.)
Blow Out basically sounds like the self-talk of someone who's nearing a nervous collapse on the inside but TRYING so hard to hold it all together out in the Real World.
I think it's a step above the rest of PH lyrically (though it's still not at the level of the vast majority of the songs that came afterwards). I like that it's a bit less direct than other songs on the album.
it's just a step above every other song on the album
i love the noise collage at the end with the echoed guitar effects
probably one of my top 10 radiohead songs
"I am fused just in case I blow out.."