I think in tying the lyrics together to mean one thing creates a violent allegory where the victim finally exacts revenge on his tormentors while mocking their beliefs and their traits.
One interpretation I get from it is the outsider who watches the upper-class born-again jocks with disgust and mocks them until the outsider decides to make them pay for their hypocrisy. The person fears for his safety daily, but still refuses to assimilate and therefore will remain an outsider (I am paranoid, but not an android)...
So this person comes in with a gun and comes after this tormentor and everyone does what he says because he's got a gun (When I am king, you will be first against the wall). The jock-type tells him, "I do really like you." but his opinion is no longer of any consequence. So then the jock-type begs for his life, a kicking, squealing gucci little piggie. Perhaps this jock-type has called the singer names and never called him by his rightful name, and this angers the singer (You don't remember, you don't remember, why don't you remember my name
Off with his head man, off with his head man
Why don't you remember my name?), but now that the tormentor has a gun pointed at him he is using his name (I guess he does).
The rain down part would be where you would see in slow motion the victim pulling the trigger or making that final decision to go beyond the point of no return and the second time you hear this is when the victim is actually shooting the person and maybe these are the things that are playing in his head or it could be all of those memories of being tormented flooding back into his mind while he is making that brutal decision:
(That's it sir, you're leaving) the decision to through with it and take this person's life
(the crackle of pig skin) pigskin a reference to football, maybe deflating a football (player)?
(the dust and the screaming) the bullet passing through the person and hitting the wall behind making some plaster fall and the screaming people when they see the murder
(The yuppies networking) the rest of the people fleeing
(the panic, the vomit) People panicking, maybe getting sick from seeing the gore or the jock-type's body losing its muscle control or the panic of the shot person causing him to become physically ill
(God loves his children) mocking this person's religion by saying "How will your beliefs save you now?" or mocking his belief that he is a religious person and therefore one of God's children and now look at him
-OR-
This shooter believes he is doing God's work by eliminating this person
-OR-
In God's creation he also created ugly things like panic and vomit and so it mocks just how much God loves His children to give them such awful things.
Pig-skin definitely isn't a reference to a handegg, as Radiohead are all British, and we really don't use the term to refer to a football either. Some of your interpretation looks pretty supported though. It's important to bear in mind when analysing any British text that where Americans have things like jocks, British people have class-castes, so think of this as a class difference and someone being excluded as a result (fits with him used the line 'that's it sir').
Pig-skin definitely isn't a reference to a handegg, as Radiohead are all British, and we really don't use the term to refer to a football either. Some of your interpretation looks pretty supported though. It's important to bear in mind when analysing any British text that where Americans have things like jocks, British people have class-castes, so think of this as a class difference and someone being excluded as a result (fits with him used the line 'that's it sir').
For my part, i think the final paragraph is more ideation than it is something actually happening. Fits with the sense of impotent and subdued rage throughout the album.
I also feel like this is someone who is in a lower societal situation, "stop the noise im trying to get some rest" I believe refers to someone getting picked on put down bullied
I also feel like this is someone who is in a lower societal situation, "stop the noise im trying to get some rest" I believe refers to someone getting picked on put down bullied
when the lyric goes screaming gucci little piggy (it's referencing the gucci clothing line meaning rich people so maybe rich people were picking on him for being poor or different.
when the lyric goes screaming gucci little piggy (it's referencing the gucci clothing line meaning rich people so maybe rich people were picking on him for being poor or different.
The song tempo changes drastically in a few parts
The song tempo changes drastically in a few parts
the first part is shy and has a lot of avoidance some light speaking up but almost like a whisper, even how Yorke sings it, it's like that
The next part is almost as if he's speaking under his breath like he's charging up to lose control
then the tempo becomes very filled with rage and this is when he loses it and fights back with your example of a gun that is a great example. why don't you remember my name oh i guess you do as if he was holding a gun to someones head yelling whats my name!!!!
then the next part (rain down) I think is almost a religious experiance for him, where he is so fulfilled by his finally getting back at his bullies. That or he's taunting God since he says great heights rain down your judgment but I think it's the previous
Then the next part is very literal he does something to make his enemies (pigskin) crackle and saying your leaving he's probally killing him or something to that extent, Everyone else is watching and telling people whats happening calling the police etc etc (the yuppies networking)
Then the God loves his children I think is about his anger towards God for putting him in such a crappy situation where he was viewed as so much less then other people and how God really doesen't love him but that I may be wrong in.
Overall I love your explanation and I feel pretty much the same way
I think in tying the lyrics together to mean one thing creates a violent allegory where the victim finally exacts revenge on his tormentors while mocking their beliefs and their traits. One interpretation I get from it is the outsider who watches the upper-class born-again jocks with disgust and mocks them until the outsider decides to make them pay for their hypocrisy. The person fears for his safety daily, but still refuses to assimilate and therefore will remain an outsider (I am paranoid, but not an android)...
So this person comes in with a gun and comes after this tormentor and everyone does what he says because he's got a gun (When I am king, you will be first against the wall). The jock-type tells him, "I do really like you." but his opinion is no longer of any consequence. So then the jock-type begs for his life, a kicking, squealing gucci little piggie. Perhaps this jock-type has called the singer names and never called him by his rightful name, and this angers the singer (You don't remember, you don't remember, why don't you remember my name Off with his head man, off with his head man Why don't you remember my name?), but now that the tormentor has a gun pointed at him he is using his name (I guess he does).
The rain down part would be where you would see in slow motion the victim pulling the trigger or making that final decision to go beyond the point of no return and the second time you hear this is when the victim is actually shooting the person and maybe these are the things that are playing in his head or it could be all of those memories of being tormented flooding back into his mind while he is making that brutal decision: (That's it sir, you're leaving) the decision to through with it and take this person's life
(the crackle of pig skin) pigskin a reference to football, maybe deflating a football (player)? (the dust and the screaming) the bullet passing through the person and hitting the wall behind making some plaster fall and the screaming people when they see the murder (The yuppies networking) the rest of the people fleeing (the panic, the vomit) People panicking, maybe getting sick from seeing the gore or the jock-type's body losing its muscle control or the panic of the shot person causing him to become physically ill (God loves his children) mocking this person's religion by saying "How will your beliefs save you now?" or mocking his belief that he is a religious person and therefore one of God's children and now look at him -OR- This shooter believes he is doing God's work by eliminating this person -OR- In God's creation he also created ugly things like panic and vomit and so it mocks just how much God loves His children to give them such awful things.
Of course, I could be wrong.
Pig-skin definitely isn't a reference to a handegg, as Radiohead are all British, and we really don't use the term to refer to a football either. Some of your interpretation looks pretty supported though. It's important to bear in mind when analysing any British text that where Americans have things like jocks, British people have class-castes, so think of this as a class difference and someone being excluded as a result (fits with him used the line 'that's it sir').
Pig-skin definitely isn't a reference to a handegg, as Radiohead are all British, and we really don't use the term to refer to a football either. Some of your interpretation looks pretty supported though. It's important to bear in mind when analysing any British text that where Americans have things like jocks, British people have class-castes, so think of this as a class difference and someone being excluded as a result (fits with him used the line 'that's it sir').
For my part, i think the final paragraph is more ideation than it is something actually happening. Fits with the sense of impotent and subdued rage throughout the album.
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I also feel like this is someone who is in a lower societal situation, "stop the noise im trying to get some rest" I believe refers to someone getting picked on put down bullied
I also feel like this is someone who is in a lower societal situation, "stop the noise im trying to get some rest" I believe refers to someone getting picked on put down bullied
when the lyric goes screaming gucci little piggy (it's referencing the gucci clothing line meaning rich people so maybe rich people were picking on him for being poor or different.
when the lyric goes screaming gucci little piggy (it's referencing the gucci clothing line meaning rich people so maybe rich people were picking on him for being poor or different.
The song tempo changes drastically in a few parts
The song tempo changes drastically in a few parts
the first part is shy and has a lot of avoidance some light speaking up but almost like a whisper, even how Yorke sings it, it's like that
The next part is almost as if he's speaking under his breath like he's charging up to lose control
then the tempo becomes very filled with rage and this is when he loses it and fights back with your example of a gun that is a great example. why don't you remember my name oh i guess you do as if he was holding a gun to someones head yelling whats my name!!!!
then the next part (rain down) I think is almost a religious experiance for him, where he is so fulfilled by his finally getting back at his bullies. That or he's taunting God since he says great heights rain down your judgment but I think it's the previous
Then the next part is very literal he does something to make his enemies (pigskin) crackle and saying your leaving he's probally killing him or something to that extent, Everyone else is watching and telling people whats happening calling the police etc etc (the yuppies networking)
Then the God loves his children I think is about his anger towards God for putting him in such a crappy situation where he was viewed as so much less then other people and how God really doesen't love him but that I may be wrong in.
Overall I love your explanation and I feel pretty much the same way