kid a lyrics

enteryoursecrets2

2010-08-29T18:09:00.000-07:00

synanim1

2010-08-29T18:08:00.001-07:00

2010-08-15T19:31:00.000-07:00

It seems music has got to the point where everybody has the right to go any place they like. And it shouldn't be over your career or one record, it can be over a song, or even ten seconds. There's ten seconds of hip-hop on the LP, you know. To me that's how I listen to music now. I don't want to be in a rock band anymore, anyway.

--Thom | 2000

What we're hearing in our heads is much more like this disjointed fragmented thing, very much a landscape. Well, the artwork is very much a landscape--for fear of sounding prog-rocky. It wasn't about people as such, not really about observing characters. It was very much about objects that you have no emotional attachment to at all. I consider the album to be incredibly unemotional. It's not in any way trying to pull you in. The vocals are like a grammar of noises.

--Thom | 2000

It's very fragmented. Like if you walk into town one day and you pick up bits of people's lives, but only for seconds, and you don't really get any further. It's not really pursued. It's sort of just there, really. It's not a big deal, it's just happening.

--Thom | 2000

I was completely blocked, because I couldn't sustain anything through a whole song to make it convincing, and I couldn't sustain a thought to the end of a sentence, and I couldn't sustain playing the guitar over four chords without thinking it was shit. And then eventually when the confidence came back, it came back in the form of not having a problem with that, actually using that. Saying, 'Okay, this is just fragments.' There's much more confidence than OK Computer.

--Thom | 2000

The title just seemed to work. I think the best ones are usually like that. Often, if you call it something specific, it drives the record in a certain way. I like the non-meaning. All sorts of bizarre things have come up in relation to it. But the one I like is based on the idea that, somewhere, some errant scientist has already created the first completely genetically cloned baby--Kid A. I'm sure somewhere it's already been done, even though it's illegal now.

--Thom | 2000

The words themselves on Kid A are kind of empty because they're leaving room for the music.

--Thom | 2000

The vocal parts are really interesting because it's the first album that we - as a band - haven't been aware of what Thom's singing about. He didn't talk about his lyrics

--Ed O'Brien

I cannot get my head around the fact that it's number one in America at all. It just doesn't mean anything. It's just la-la.

--Thom on Kid A

Kid A Postcard Pack

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Kid A Postcard Pack

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Kid A Postcard Pack

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Kid A Postcard Pack

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Kid A Postcard Pack

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Kid A Postcard Pack

2008-12-12T16:00:00.000-08:00

Kid A Postcard Pack

2008-12-12T15:10:00.000-08:00

10 motion picture soundtrack

2006-08-21T10:53:00.000-07:00

red wine and sleeping pills
help me get back to your arms
cheap sex and sad films
help me get where i belong
i think you're crazy, maybe
i think you're crazy, maybe
stop sending letters
letters always get burned
it's not like the movies
they fed us on little white lies
i think you're crazy, maybe
i think you're crazy, maybe
i will see you in the next life

here are some old lyrics that were not used on the album version (2nd verse):

beautiful angel
pulled apart at birth
limbless and helpless
i can't even recognize you
i think you're crazy, maybe
i think you're crazy, maybe
i think you're crazy, maybe
i think you're crazy, maybe
i think you're crazy, maybe
i think you're crazy, maybe
i will see you in the next life

'When I listen to Kid A and Amnesiac I can't help but notice a narrative sewn seamlessly into the music. Does Kid A end with a suicide?' - Aaron McClaskey, 20, Fort Wayne, Indiana

Thom: 'No, 'Motion Picture Soundtrack' ends with little tweety angel noises, I seem to remember. [sings quietly] "I will see you in the next life..." No, that could just be saying goodbye to someone dying. They don't have to be doing it themselves. You can read suicide into most things, can't you?'

--observer

09 morning bell

2006-08-21T06:08:00.000-07:00

The morning bell
The morning bell
Light another candle and
Release me
Release me
You can keep the furniture
A bump on the head
Howling down the chimney
Release me release me
Please
Release me
Release me
Where'd you park the car?
Where'd you park the car?
The clothes are all alone with the furniture {Or, in Amnesiac version: The clothes are all alone with her furniture}
And I might as well
I might as well
Sleepy jack the fire drill
Round and round and round and round and round
And round
Cut the kids in half
Cut the kids in half
Cut the kids in half

{This bit only appears in the Kid A version:}

{mumbles here}
walking {a bunch of times}
{more mumbles}
walking {more times}
So I keep walking walking walk walk walking walking walk

08 idioteque

2006-08-21T06:05:00.000-07:00

who's in a bunker? Who's in a bunker?
women and children first
and the children first
and the children
i laugh until my head comes off
swallow till I burst
until I burst
until I
who's in a bunker?
who's in a bunker?
i have seen too much
you haven?t seen enough
you haven?t seen it
i'll laugh until my head comes off
women and children first
and children first
and children

here I'm allowed
everything all of the time
here I'm allowed
everything all of the time

ice age coming
ice age coming
let me hear both sides
let me hear both sides
let me hear both
ice age coming
ice age coming
throw 'em in the fire
throw 'em in the fire
throw 'em on the
we're not scaremmongering
this is really happening
happening
we're not scaremongering
this is really happening
Happening
mobiles skwrking {yes, folks, that is the official spelling}
mobiles chirping
take the money and run
take the money and run
take the money

here I'm alive
everything all of the time
(x4)
the first of the children

lets see all the blue collared boot boys sweat+whine
police on hoorsback broken bones
we sit in the back while no-one drives
two headed monsters
three headed brides
nobody is free to do what they want
waited on hand and foot
the worlds best selling drug
comrades with mobile phones
the illegitimate bastard sons
crawling out from under stones
daddy daddy ive come home
a woman flutters her eyelashes in washington
and bombs rain down in sudan
women and children first
carry on smiling
and the world will smile with you
ill laugh my nuts off the day the banks collapse
im alright jack
the day the banks collapse
in bloody palestine
made in china
the amazing sound of the killing hordes
human time bomb
we want to see them beg for life
chop off the fingers in the pie
i want to see you smile again
the day the banks collapse
the puce synthetic voice that says were fine
limitless scenarios
limitless channels
on which to watch
who was right
and who was wrong.
who was right
and who was wrong.
who was right
and who was wrong.

07 in limbo

2006-08-21T06:02:00.000-07:00

{this part is mumbled under much of the song:}

lundy, fastnet, irishsea
i've got a message I can't read
i've got a message I can't read

i'm on your side
nowhere to hide
trap doors that open
i spiral down
you're living in a fantasy world
you're living in a fantasy world
you're living in a fantasy world
i'm lost at sea
don't bother me
i've lost my way
i've lost my way
you're living in a fantasy world
you're living in a fantasy world
you're living in a fantasy world
{sung simultaneously:} in this beautiful world {and} the most beautiful woman in the world
living in a fantasy world
living in a fantasy world
living in a fantasy world
living in a fantasy world
living in a fantasy world

you are living in a fantasy world
you are living in a fantasy world
you are living in a fantasy world
you are living in a fantasy worldyou are living in a fantasy world
you are living in a fantasy world
you are living in a fantasy world
you are living in a fantasy world.

--Archive

the sky is green
brain overload im so afraid
the trap door opens
i spiral down
down
down

--Archive

06 optimistic

2006-08-21T06:01:00.000-07:00

Flies are buzzing round my head
Vultures circling my bed
Picking up every last crumb
The big fish eat the little ones
Big fish eat the little ones
Not my problem, give me some

You can try the best you can
You can try the best you can
The best you can is good enough
You can try the best you can
You can try the best you can
The best you can is good enough

This one's optimistic
This one went to market
This one just came out of the swamp
This one dropped a payload
Fodder for the animals
Living on animal farm

You can try the best you can
You can try the best you can
Yhe best you can is good enough
You can try the best you can
You can try the best you can
The best you can is good enough
I'd really like to help you man
I'd really like to help you man
Now this messed up millionaire
Flying off on a prison ship

You can try the best you can
You try the best you can
The best you can is good enough
You can try the best you can
You can try the best you can
Dinosaurs roaming the earth
Dinosaurs roaming the earth
Dinosaurs roaming the earth

05 treefingers

2006-08-21T06:00:00.000-07:00

04 how to disappear completely

2006-08-21T05:51:00.000-07:00

that there
that's not me
i go
where I please
i walk through walls
i float down the Liffey
i'm not here
i'm not here
in a little while
i'll be gone
the moment's already passed
yeah, it's gone
i'm not here
i'm not here
strobe lights
and blown speakers
fireworks
and hurricanes
i'm not here
this isn't happening
i'm not here
i'm not here

Thom Yorke, who wrote and sings the song, says the inspiration for "How to Disappear Completely" came from two things, in particular Radiohead's tremendously popular appearance at Glastonbury Festival in 1997 and the feeling of disconnection he felt on the subsequent tour, and a dream set in Dublin, Ireland in which he was chased by a wave of water from the River Liffey:
"I dreamt I was floating down the Liffey and there was nothing I could do. I was flying around Dublin and I really was in the Dream. The whole song is my experiences of really floating"
R.E.M. singer Michael Stipe partially inspired "How to Disappear Completely" when he advised Thom Yorke after the strain of touring OK Computer became too much. "That song is about the whole period of time that OK Computer was happening. We did the Glastonbury Festival and this thing in Ireland. Something snapped in me. I just said, 'That’s it. I can’t take it anymore'. And more than a year later, we were still on the road. I hadn’t had time to address things. The lyrics came from something Michael Stipe said to me. I rang him and said, 'I cannot cope with this'. And he said, 'Pull the shutters down and keep saying, 'I'm not here, this is not happening'. Yorke can be seen writing himself such a reminder in the documentary Meeting People Is Easy, during a scene where Scott Walker's music play. Later, Stipe was himself influenced by Radiohead, asking Yorke's permission to name his own song "Disappear".

--Wikipedia

03 the national anthem

2006-08-21T05:50:00.000-07:00

Everyone
Everyone around here
Everyone is so near
It's on and on
It's on and on
Everyone
Everyone is so near
Everyone has got the fear
It's all alone
It's all alone

Turn it off! (x3)

01 everything in its right place

2006-08-21T05:47:00.001-07:00

yesterday
i woke upp sucking a lemon evrything in its right place there are two colours in my head what was that you tried to say? hearing damage/evrything in its place. yesterday things just got on top of me but today evrything is in its right place. yesterday i woke up sucking a lemon but today i am the walking fucking cash machine. the caucasian scratching himselfsilly. ihavev foundno miracle cure. i will live a WALLPAPER life!
with evrything is in its right place. yes. nothing but blue skies from now on. no ghosts no skeletons.
you see yesterday i wasnt hearing straight but today everything is in its right place i have learnt the art of self deduction. i take a deep breath and walk away.
from
and everything is in its right place.
who will have the last in line? i am not hearing straight
i cannot be hearing straight

i must completely stone deaf square pegs into round holes anything you want to do he was a good man they said he was a gentleman they said even when life spat in his face he put
everything back in its right place =

[Right Channel:lemon, lemon on, on a lemon,.... woke up su || Left channel sampled: kid a, kid a, kid a] everything
everything
everything
everything
in its right place
in its right place
in its right place
in its right place
yesterday i woke up sucking on lemon
yesterday i woke up sucking on lemon
yesterday i woke up sucking on lemon
yesterday i woke up sucking a lemon
everything
everything
everything
in its right place
in its right place
in its right place
right place there are two colors in my head
there are two colors in my head
what what is that you tried to say
what rhyme was that you tried to say
tried to say
tried to say
tried to say
tried to say everything
everything
everythingw me out of town
rats and children follow me out of their homes
come on kids

02 kid a

2006-08-21T05:47:00.000-07:00

I slipped away
I slipped on a little white lie
We've got heads on sticks
And you've got ventriloquists
We've got heads on sticks
And you've got ventriloquists
Standing in shadows at the end of my bed
Standing in shadows at the end of my bed
Standing in shadows at the end of my bed
Standing in shadows at the end of my bed
Rats and children follow me out of town
Rats and children follow me out of their homes
Come on kids