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.
Our past sins will always come back to haunt us, its about guilt and karma. Guilt is something that can never be erased from our conscience, we can never get the "stink" off. It comes like a comet, as in you can let yourself forget about your past sins but this is always temporary.. it comes back like clockwork.
don't get my sympathy hanging out the 15th floor.
you've changed the locks 3 times,
he still comes reeling through the door.
and soon he'll get to you,
teach you how to get to purest hell.
Thom doesn't feel sympathetic towards people who put themselves in a position where they will be haunted by their sins. They can hide out (running all the way up to the 15th floor) but it will always come back. Radiohead is very much into the "what goes around comes around" mindset.
Guilt is crippling, it strips us of our passion for life. The man lying down in the video doesn't want to go any further with life, he wants to isolate himself from the world. When they ask him why he's lying on the ground, he sheds light on all our past sins and suddenly everybody else cannot go on with a guilty conscience.
First time I heard this song, I saw the video with it.
First time I heard this song, I saw the video with it.
My thoughts are along radidredg's, though I haven't matched them to the words. Just in general, I think the song is about something so depression and crippling that the man in the video couldn't help but fall. I mean, that could be inferred from just the video alone. Not sure why more people didn't assume this.
My thoughts are along radidredg's, though I haven't matched them to the words. Just in general, I think the song is about something so depression and crippling that the man in the video couldn't help but fall. I mean, that could be inferred from just the video alone. Not sure why more people didn't assume this.
If I were to go with radiod's full interpretation of crippling guilt, I'd probably go into a rant about being selfish, indifferent, and uneducated about the world. About how that is the same as, if not worse than, committing active sins against your fellow man. Of course people say they would never kick a starving man in the ribs for asking for your sandwich, but how many more people could help that man by buying him food and would not?
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.
Our past sins will always come back to haunt us, its about guilt and karma. Guilt is something that can never be erased from our conscience, we can never get the "stink" off. It comes like a comet, as in you can let yourself forget about your past sins but this is always temporary.. it comes back like clockwork.
don't get my sympathy hanging out the 15th floor. you've changed the locks 3 times, he still comes reeling through the door. and soon he'll get to you, teach you how to get to purest hell.
Thom doesn't feel sympathetic towards people who put themselves in a position where they will be haunted by their sins. They can hide out (running all the way up to the 15th floor) but it will always come back. Radiohead is very much into the "what goes around comes around" mindset.
Guilt is crippling, it strips us of our passion for life. The man lying down in the video doesn't want to go any further with life, he wants to isolate himself from the world. When they ask him why he's lying on the ground, he sheds light on all our past sins and suddenly everybody else cannot go on with a guilty conscience.
First time I heard this song, I saw the video with it.
First time I heard this song, I saw the video with it.
My thoughts are along radidredg's, though I haven't matched them to the words. Just in general, I think the song is about something so depression and crippling that the man in the video couldn't help but fall. I mean, that could be inferred from just the video alone. Not sure why more people didn't assume this.
My thoughts are along radidredg's, though I haven't matched them to the words. Just in general, I think the song is about something so depression and crippling that the man in the video couldn't help but fall. I mean, that could be inferred from just the video alone. Not sure why more people didn't assume this.
If I were to go with radiod's full interpretation of crippling guilt, I'd probably go into a rant about being selfish, indifferent, and uneducated about the world. About how that is the same as, if not worse than, committing active sins against your fellow man. Of course people say they would never kick a starving man in the ribs for asking for your sandwich, but how many more people could help that man by buying him food and would not?
@radiodredg Agree wiv that
@radiodredg Agree wiv that