In the context of the album, and in the context of radiohead, I think it's pretty much identity, conformity, man vs state and religion, or god.
Wakey wakey, perhaps someone lay down in the snow and fell apart. Maybe they became reasonable, sensible and lost some kind of inner child or sense of joy. They then fell like dominoes??? Maybe that's akin to selling your soul to the devil, akin to what Faust did in the play.
Fingers in the blackbird pie? The reasonable sensible person they've become is the ideal gift for the king, the rulers of capitalism, the wealthy class. A pale immitation with the edges all sawn off is exactly what they'd enjoy. A humble servant, controlled, conformed, bodysnatched.
They might have lost their true sense of self. It's what you feel not what you ought to... the background voice to me seems to echoe what you ARE two, which perhaps relates to the gap between inside and outside, that it does indeed feel like two separate entities.
'we thought you had it in you but not'... you betrayed your true, fun self to become nothing and why? for no real reason... just look at the sky.
The elephant in the room is you pretending, being something you're not. It could be messing you up.
Duplicated, triplicated, as common as a plastic bag... and what exactly is it that you're immitating?
I think Thom is actually in favour of the theory that there was some kind of intervention by a hand from above.... you sacrificed your god given self? Where do you get off? 'i love you but enough is enough, enough of that stuff'. That's why you end up where you started...
You got a head full of feathers.
You got melted into butter.
MALLEABLE, NO BELIEFS, NO REAL SENSE OF SELF OR TRUTH, NO RELIGION, JUST LOST.
In the context of the album, and in the context of radiohead, I think it's pretty much identity, conformity, man vs state and religion, or god.
Wakey wakey, perhaps someone lay down in the snow and fell apart. Maybe they became reasonable, sensible and lost some kind of inner child or sense of joy. They then fell like dominoes??? Maybe that's akin to selling your soul to the devil, akin to what Faust did in the play.
Fingers in the blackbird pie? The reasonable sensible person they've become is the ideal gift for the king, the rulers of capitalism, the wealthy class. A pale immitation with the edges all sawn off is exactly what they'd enjoy. A humble servant, controlled, conformed, bodysnatched.
They might have lost their true sense of self. It's what you feel not what you ought to... the background voice to me seems to echoe what you ARE two, which perhaps relates to the gap between inside and outside, that it does indeed feel like two separate entities.
'we thought you had it in you but not'... you betrayed your true, fun self to become nothing and why? for no real reason... just look at the sky.
The elephant in the room is you pretending, being something you're not. It could be messing you up.
Duplicated, triplicated, as common as a plastic bag... and what exactly is it that you're immitating?
I think Thom is actually in favour of the theory that there was some kind of intervention by a hand from above.... you sacrificed your god given self? Where do you get off? 'i love you but enough is enough, enough of that stuff'. That's why you end up where you started...
You got a head full of feathers. You got melted into butter.
MALLEABLE, NO BELIEFS, NO REAL SENSE OF SELF OR TRUTH, NO RELIGION, JUST LOST.
and there's no real reason.