OK COMPUTER (RADIOHEAD)

 

Airbag

In the next world war

in a jackknifed juggernaut

I am born again

In the neon sign

Scrolling up and down

I am born again

In interstella' burst

I'm back to save the universe

In a deep deep sleep

of the innocent

I am born again

In a fast german car

I'm amazed that I survived

An airbag saved my life

In interstella' burst

I'm back to save the universe

(solo)

In interstella' burst

I'm back to save the universe

In interstella' burst

I'm back to save the universe

 

Paranoid Android

Please could you stop the noise i'm trying to get some rest?

From all the unborn chicken voices in my head

What's there?

(my name is paranoid.... i'm your android)

What's there?

(my name is paranoid....I'm your android)

When i am king you will be first against the wall

with your opinion which is of no consequence at all

What's there

(my name is paranoid.... i'm your android)

What's there

(my name is paranoid.... i'm your android)

Ambition makes you look pretty ugly

Kicking squealing gucci little piggy

You don't remember!

You don't remember?

why don't you remember my name?

off with his head, man

off with his head, man

why won't he remember my name?

i guess he does

(solo)

Rain down

Rain down

Come on rain down on me

From a great height

From a great height

height

Rain down

Rain down

Come on rain down on me

From a great height

From a great height

height

Rain down

Rain down

Come on rain down on me

From a great height

From a great height

height

 

 

 

Subterrian Homesick Alien

The breath of the morning

I keep forgetting

The smell of the warm summer air

I live in a town

Where you can't smell a think

You watch your feet for cracks in the pavement

High above

Aliens hover

Making home movies for the folks back home

Of all these weird creatures

Who lock up their spirits

Drill holes in themselves and live for their secret

 

They're all up-tight...up-tight

They're all up-tight...up-tight

I wish that they'd swoop down

In a country lane

Late at night when I'm driving

Take me on board

Their beautiful ship

Show me the world as I'd love to see it

I'd tell all my friends but

They'd never believe me

They'd think that I'd finally lost it

I'd show them the stars
And the meaning of life

They'd shut me away but I'd be alright

They're all up-tight...up-tight

They're all up-tight...up-tight

 

Exit music (for a film)

Wake from your sleep

The drowning of your tears

Today we escape, we escape

Pack and get dressed

Before your father hears us

Before all hell breaks loose

Breathe

Keep breathing

Don't lose your nerve

Breathe

Keep breathing

I can't do this alone

Sing us a song

A song to keep us warm

There's such a chill, such a chill

You can laugh

A spiteless laugh

WE hope your rules and

wisdom choke you

And now we are one

In everlasting peace

We hope that you choke, that you choke

We hope that you choke, that you choke

We hope that you choke, that you choke

 

 

 

Let down

Transport, motorways and tramlines

starting and then stopping

taking off and landing

the emptiest of feelings

disappointed people

clinging on to bottles

and when it comes its so

so disappointing

let down and hanging around

crushed like a bug in the ground

let down and hanging around

shell smashed

juices flowing

wings twitch

legs are going

don't get sentimental

it always ends up drivel

one day, i am going to grow wings

a chemichal reaction

hysterical and useless

hysterical and

let down and hanging around

crushed like a bug in the ground

let down and hanging around

you know where

you know where you are with

you know where you are with

floor collapes

floating bouncing back

and one day

you'll know where you are

let down and hanging around

crushed like a bug in the ground

let down and hanging around

 


Karma police

Karma police, arrest this man

he talks in maths, he buzzes like a fridge

he's like a detuned radio

Karma police, arrest this girl

her "Hittler hairdo" is makin' me feel ill

and we have crashed her party

This is what you get

This is what you get

this is what you get when you mess with us

Karma police, I've given all I can

it's not enough. I've given all I can

but we're still on the payroll

This is what you get

This is what you get

this is what you get when you mess with us

For a minute there

I lost myself

I lost myself

phew! for a minute there

I lost myself

I lost myself

 

Fitter happier

Fitter happier, more productive

Comfortable not drinking too much

Regular exercice at the gym (3 days a week)

Getting on better with your associate employee contemporaries

At ease

Eating well no more microwave dinner and saturated fat

A patient, better driver; a safer car, baby smiling in the back seat

Sleeping well: no bad dreams, no paranoia

Careful to all animals; never washing the spiders down the plughole

Keep in contact with old friends, enjoy a drink now and then

Will frequently check credit at moral bank hole in wall

Favors for favorsαfond but not in love

Charity standing orders on sunday ring road supermarket

(no killing moths or putting boiling water on the ants)

car wash (also on sundays)

no longer afraid of the dark or midday shadows

nothing so ridiculously teenage and desperate

nothing so childish at a better pace

slower and more calculated

no chance of escape; now self-employed

concerned (but powerless)an empowered and informed member of society (pragmatism not idealism)

will not cry in public, less chance of illness

tires that grip in the wet (shot of baby strapped in back seat)

a good memory, still cries at a good film

still kisses with saliva, no longer empty and frantic

like a cat tied to a stick

that╞s driven into frozen winter shit (the ability to laugh at weakness) α calm

fitter, healthier and more productive

a pig, in a cage on antibiotics

 

Electioneering

I will stop

I will stop at nothin'

Say the right things

When electioneering

I trust I can rely on ... your vote

When I go forwards

You go backwards

And somewhere we will meet

Riot sheelds

Voodoo economics

It's just business

Cattle prods and the IMF

I trust I can rely on ... your vote

When I go forwards

You go backwards

And somewhere we will meet

 

Climbing up the walls

I am the key to the lock in your house, that keeps your toys in the basement

And if you get too far inside, you'll only see my reflection

It's always best when the light is off, I am the pick in the ice

Do not cry out or hit the alarm, we're friends till we die

And either way you turn, I'll be there, open up your skull

I'll be there, climbing up the walls

It's always best when the light is off, it's always better on the outside

Fifteen blows to the back of my head, fifteen blows to your mind

So lock the kids in safe tonight, shut the eyes in the cupboard

So not cry out or hit the alarm, you'll get the loneliest feeling that

either way you turn, I'll be there, open up your skull

I'll be there, climbing up the walls

Climb up the walls. climb up the walls

 

No surprises

A heart that's full up like a landfill

A job that slowly kills you

Bruises that won't heal

You look so tired n' unhappy

Bring down the government

They don't, they don't speak for us

I'll take a quiet life a handshake

Some carbon monoxide and

No alarms and no surprises

No alarms and no surprises

No alarms and no surprises

Silent

Silent

This is my final fit

My final bellyache with

No alarms and no surprises

No alarms and no surprises

No alarms and no surprises please

Such a pretty house and

Such a pretty garden with

No alarms and no surprises

No alarms and no surprises

No alarms and no surprises please

 

Lucky

I'm on a roll

I'm on a roll

This time

I feel my luck could change

Kill me Sarah

kill me again

with love

(it's) gonna be a glorious day

Pull me out of the aircrash

Pull me out of the lake

'Cause I'm your superhero

We're standin' on the edge

The head of state

has called for me

by name

But I don't have time for him

It's gonna be

a glorious day

I feel my luck could change

(CHORUS) (BRIDGE)

We are standin' on the edge

 

The tourist

It barks at no one else but me

Like it's seen a ghost

I guess it's seen the sparks a-flowing

No one else would know

Hey man, slowdown

Slowdown

Idiot, slowdown

Slowdown

Sometimes I get overcharged

That's when you see sparks

They ask me where the hell I'm going

A thousand feet per second

Hey man, slowdown

Slowdown

Idiot, slowdown

Slowdown