Radiohead trip continues with their latest album ->
Lotus Flower
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I will shape myself into your pocket
Invisible
Do what you want
Do what you want
I will shrink and I will disappear
I will slip into the groove and cut me off
And cut me off
There's an empty space inside my heart
Where the weeds take root
And now I'll set you free
I'll set you free
There's an empty space inside my heart
Where the weeds take root
So now I'll set you free
I'll set you free
Slowly we unfurl
As lotus flowers
'Cos all I want is the moon upon a stick
Just to see what if
Just to see what is
I can't kick your habit
Just to fill your fast ballooning head
Listen to your heart
We will shrink and we'll be quiet as mice
And while the cat is away
Do what we want
Do what we want
There's an empty space inside my heart
Where the weeds take root
So now I'll set you free
I'll set you free
'Cos all I want is the moon upon a stick
Just to see what if
Just to see what is
The bird lights float into my room
Slowly we unfurl
As lotus flowers
'Cos all I want is the moon upon a stick
I dance around the pit
The darkness is beneath
I can't kick your habit
Just to feed your fast ballooning head
Listen to your heart
A good interpretation of the lyrics ->
The Lotus is the symbol of the single dogma of Buddhism: that even the lowest person as the root of the lotus is in the foulest mud can become the purest cleanest flower. Not even dust will stick to the petals of a lotus. Non-attachment is enlightenment. The lotus flower is the symbol of believing in the possibility of one's own enlightenment.
The moon is also a Buddhist symbol: it only reflects the light of the sun imperfectly, as a person only reflects, imperfectly, one's experience of the surroundings. Since we have choice of how we reflect our world, as we can change our own mind, we each have the opportunity to teach others how to become free (be a Buddha). Having that on a stick means being able to control one's own mind, which is another way of saying enlightenment.
The second person in the song is trying to feed their ego, which is the opposite of enlightenment. Maybe that person is spiritually better off in a self deprecating addiction, or they would get a fat head.
Monday, May 23, 2011
Sunday, April 10, 2011
Radiohead-Fog-Com Lag
Lyrics ->
There's a little child
Running round this house
And he never leaves
He will never leave
And the fog comes up from the sewers
And glows in the dark
Baby alligators in the sewers grow up fast
Grow up fast
Anything you want it can be done
How did you go bad?
Did you go bad?
Did you go bad?
Somethings will never wash away
Did you go bad?
Did you go bad?
A good interpretation of the lyrics ->
It's inspired by the supposed haunting of the studio in which Radiohead recorded Amnesiac, -
The lines
'There's a little child running round this house, and he never leaves, he will never leave'
refers to the ghost, and
'did you go bad'
questions why the boy's soul couldn't pass on, with the typical view on ghosts being that they were unhappy, angry or evil in life.
Baby alligators in the sewers (the original title)refers to the urban legend regarding the baby alligator pet-craze in America in the 1980's - when the baby alligators outgrew their tanks and became unmanagable, they were flushed down the toilet into the sewers where legend has it, they grew huge.
In the context of this song, Thom is saying that the little things you brush beneath the carpet or tuck away inside yourself to forget about will only grow bigger and more dangerous and weigh heavy on your soul.
From Wikipedia about the song ->
There's a little child
Running round this house
And he never leaves
He will never leave
And the fog comes up from the sewers
And glows in the dark
Baby alligators in the sewers grow up fast
Grow up fast
Anything you want it can be done
How did you go bad?
Did you go bad?
Did you go bad?
Somethings will never wash away
Did you go bad?
Did you go bad?
A good interpretation of the lyrics ->
It's inspired by the supposed haunting of the studio in which Radiohead recorded Amnesiac, -
The lines
'There's a little child running round this house, and he never leaves, he will never leave'
refers to the ghost, and
'did you go bad'
questions why the boy's soul couldn't pass on, with the typical view on ghosts being that they were unhappy, angry or evil in life.
Baby alligators in the sewers (the original title)refers to the urban legend regarding the baby alligator pet-craze in America in the 1980's - when the baby alligators outgrew their tanks and became unmanagable, they were flushed down the toilet into the sewers where legend has it, they grew huge.
In the context of this song, Thom is saying that the little things you brush beneath the carpet or tuck away inside yourself to forget about will only grow bigger and more dangerous and weigh heavy on your soul.
From Wikipedia about the song ->
"Fog (Again)" is a short acoustic song (2:19), featuring Thom Yorke on vocals and piano. This version was recorded at an acoustic set, widely known as 'Le Reservoir', which Yorke and Jonny Greenwood did for the French-German TV station Arte. It was also featured in a third season episode of The O.C.. The original "Fog" appeared on 2001 single "Knives Out", in a 4/4 rather than 6/8 time signature, and as a mainly bass and percussion-driven song, in a style in keeping with their work of the Kid A/Amnesiac period.
The original version of the song, which runs 4:03 in length, features in the animated film adaptation of Philip K. Dick's A Scanner Darkly, along with other Radiohead songs, the B-side "The Amazing Sounds of Orgy" and "Skttrbrain (Four Tet RMX)". "Black Swan", from frontman Thom Yorke's album The Eraser, is also featured in the film, which was released in July 2006.[9]
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