Masamoto99:
"This is about reckoning that you don't last forever, and LOVING living. Good things distract us from the truth. You know who you love the most. Thom Yorke gives me strength, thank you for your beautiful words in rainbows"
Sometimes the most simple interpretations are the best ones.
Reckoner means 'an expert at claculation'. In the context of the album, where the narrators debate between doing what feels right vs. what one ought to, and also the consequences (Heaven vs. Hell, whether figuratively or literally), the one change between the first half of the album and the final part seems to be the decision to follow what one feels is right (be true to oneself) rather than do what others tell us is right. I think the line 'because we separate like ripples on a blank shore' fits in with that interpretation. I take that line to mean that though we are all in essence the same--as each molecule of water is part of a whole--in life we follow different paths. The 'freer' second half to the album makes me feel like that. The narrator (or narrators) has/have decided to follow his/their heart, no matter what the consequences are... even if it means going to Hell. But the part in "Reckoner" 'you can't take it with you' could mean that the narrator feels redeemed because he feels right about what he's doing, so the devil cannot take his soul.
Masamoto99: "This is about reckoning that you don't last forever, and LOVING living. Good things distract us from the truth. You know who you love the most. Thom Yorke gives me strength, thank you for your beautiful words in rainbows"
Sometimes the most simple interpretations are the best ones.
Reckoner means 'an expert at claculation'. In the context of the album, where the narrators debate between doing what feels right vs. what one ought to, and also the consequences (Heaven vs. Hell, whether figuratively or literally), the one change between the first half of the album and the final part seems to be the decision to follow what one feels is right (be true to oneself) rather than do what others tell us is right. I think the line 'because we separate like ripples on a blank shore' fits in with that interpretation. I take that line to mean that though we are all in essence the same--as each molecule of water is part of a whole--in life we follow different paths. The 'freer' second half to the album makes me feel like that. The narrator (or narrators) has/have decided to follow his/their heart, no matter what the consequences are... even if it means going to Hell. But the part in "Reckoner" 'you can't take it with you' could mean that the narrator feels redeemed because he feels right about what he's doing, so the devil cannot take his soul.