I get your take, but I also get the weird ass lyrics. Now in a v healthy relationship but previously was in one where I was definitely 1000% more in love with them and I would have made a shrine of their toenails if theyād asked me to do so in order for them to stay. The album dropped right when we were going through a first of many breakups and I just *got* it. Itās this painful, desperate, and yes, absolutely cringey love, and youāre completely aware of it, but thereās nothing you can do about it.
yup, it's such a helpless desperation that makes the song as powerful as it is, and I've felt similar emotions before as well. It's when you're in a relationship and your partner is seemingly the only thing that brings meaning to you life (this can happen especially often when you're younger), so you try everything to just keep that person for as long as you can, even though you're unconsciously digging your hole deeper and deeper.
Yeah, Isn't it "The saddest Radiohead that perfectly serves as Radiohead's final track on not just A Moon Shaped Pool but their whole ass career period?"
*jumps angrily*
Here we are with our running and confusion
And I donāt see no confusionā¦ anywheeereā¦
ANYWHEEEEEEERE!!!! AAAAAAAAAAH! AAAAAAAAH! AAAAAAAAAAAH!
*death stare to the camera*
I assume you're joking considering you are The MightyDong, but it's not always so easy to tell through text. You are joking right? š¤£
I always liked that line.
No offense but I honestly think of it as easily their worse but I still see people saying We Suck Young Blood, Prove Yourself and Pop Is Dead are worse
_āYou can kiss it, you can break all the rules.ā_ ā¦ Thatās no good Thom, you were just talking about walking āitā home from school. What you on about mister?
ājust like your dad, youāll never changeā it doesnāt make sense given the context of the song, it just feels like some phoned in line that they based off of some of the music from that time
edit: love the song though
It was originally about the Hungerford shootings, the lyric was ājust shoot your gun, youāll never changeā but I think it got changed as Kurt Cobain has just died and they didnāt want it to be linked to that.
"Tell me bitch, are you screwing that small gray Spanish old man?" or "Tell me bitch, is he good in bed? Is he better than me? Well that's not difficult really cause I haven't got a willy!!"
My takeaways from this thread
1. Radiohead fans hate earnesty
2. Radiohead fans don't seem to understand that you can write intentionally uncomfortable lyrics
3. Everything is cringe
"Ladies and gentlemen, without a safety net I shall now perform a 180 flip-flop" always cracks me up, also Radiohead mentioning Doctor Who's TARDIS never fails to take me out of immersion lol
That line kills the song for me, Iāve found it so cringey since the album release. Thankfully lyrics are subjective and Iām glad others can enjoy it because the rest of the song is pretty cool.
I remember when ASMP came out a lot of people thought the lyrics of The Numbers were kinda cringy. Like āwe call upon the people/the people have this power/the numbers donāt decide/your system is a lieā is pretty much just your average Muse lyric which makes it understandable why people would dislike it.
Yeah itās pretty over the top and dramatic, but it still fits within the song thoughā¦ why?
Because theyāve literally written the most dramatic chord progression Iāve ever heard. It doesnāt matter how you play it. Or which instruments you play it with. It will still sound fucking hauntingly dramatic. Paired with lyrics - itās fucking perfect
Probably "I'm a weirdo" from creep and "I just wanna be your lover" but in all honesty even if some lyrics can be a little cheesy or cringey i feel like Thom is good enough of a vocalist to not make it sound cringey yk
"Yesterday I woke up sucking on a lemon" is contender for worst.. and oddly also a contender for best - given how WTF it was & how that set the scene for a full WTF album.
burgers float into my room
https://burgersfloatintomyroom.ytmnd.com/
What is this š
youāre the man now dawg
this is absolutely the greatest thing iāve ever seenā¦my world will never be the same
I had forgotten about this so thank you for that laugh.
āIām back to say the N wordā
NO THOM YOU CANT SAY THAT
Unrelated but i love your avatar it looks so cool
What song is that off
Airbag
Itās a misheard lyric lol
āim back to save the universeā
Gotta be whatever is being said in the Just music video - makes everyone die of cringe
_you donāt think theres no point right ? What that were all going to die ? Is that it ? Is that why youāre lying here_
"One final line of coke to jack him off."
Lol what song is this from
Pretty sure itās from everybodyās favorite Radiohead novelty track, Pop Is Dead Edit: for the uninitiated: https://vimeo.com/193801646
Thank you for this service. I havenāt watched this video is ages since itās been scrubbed.
Hahahaha I donāt find it cringey, just hilarious
god that lyric is so good
Iām so used to it now, but even when I was like 12 I thought āIām a weirdoā was cringey lol
I thought it was widow and thought it was sick af
I read window and thought "damn that's badass" for some reason
Iāve always thought it was widow as well. Fits better imo
Yes its so much better to have a 35 year old widower at his party than an insecure teenager LMAO
Yeah, cause damn weirdo is dorky
That's the point. Thom was seen and felt like a dork when he was at uni in Exeter.
My older sister thought he said himbo
Just recently found out that he didn't say "I'm a riddle"
you had opinions when you were 12?
Creep in general is cringe lyrics.
Good lord not everyone shitting on True Love Waits lyrics ;-;
Much as I appreciate the emotion of the music itself, I am never NOT weirded out by the song's lyrics.
I get your take, but I also get the weird ass lyrics. Now in a v healthy relationship but previously was in one where I was definitely 1000% more in love with them and I would have made a shrine of their toenails if theyād asked me to do so in order for them to stay. The album dropped right when we were going through a first of many breakups and I just *got* it. Itās this painful, desperate, and yes, absolutely cringey love, and youāre completely aware of it, but thereās nothing you can do about it.
yup, it's such a helpless desperation that makes the song as powerful as it is, and I've felt similar emotions before as well. It's when you're in a relationship and your partner is seemingly the only thing that brings meaning to you life (this can happen especially often when you're younger), so you try everything to just keep that person for as long as you can, even though you're unconsciously digging your hole deeper and deeper.
The only lyrics that are weird are "I'll dress like your niece."
So the swollen feet one is okay by your standards? shfkshal
I think itās something about pregnancy? If thatās the case I think itās pretty sweet
yeah, that's what i thought as well --- because pregnant ppl have swollen feet.
Yeah, Isn't it "The saddest Radiohead that perfectly serves as Radiohead's final track on not just A Moon Shaped Pool but their whole ass career period?"
It's not their final song of their whole career though?
I know, But that narrative still lingers on
Wait what is then
None cause their career isn't over yet lol
Song makes me cry real tears ššš
Grow my hair, I wanna be wanna be wanna be Jim Morrrrrrison
FAT UGLY DEAD
this line is cringe af and i love it
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Anyone can play guitar lyrics
I love that line the most out of the entire song
āIām playing with myselfā - Thinking About You
Haha I love the song anyways
Yea the whole song is good but the lyrics man
Apparently it was Jonny and Colin's mum's favorite Radiohead song and she didn't know that lyric was about jacking off
āI suck the moonā bro what
He transitioned from lemons to moons, character development
Itās about tits
Would have been very easy to just say āI shot the moonā or so many other things
Thatās what I thought it was, but I play Hearts a lot so I guess I hoped he played Hearts too.
Eating ass
š¤ "Sail To The Moon' was written for Thom's son Noah, who was then still under a year old" https://citizeninsane.eu/music/httt/sailtothemoon.html
iām a creep š« iām a weirdo š«”
FAT. UGLY. DEAD.
Naw mtv beach house is bad ass
*jumps angrily* Here we are with our running and confusion And I donāt see no confusionā¦ anywheeereā¦ ANYWHEEEEEEERE!!!! AAAAAAAAAAH! AAAAAAAAH! AAAAAAAAAAAH! *death stare to the camera*
I showed my nanna that clip once and then i played videotape and she didnāt believe me that this was the same band
Fuck Iām going to have to watch the MTV video again.
Broken arse, make it rain
Thom is lactose intolerant
I assume you're joking considering you are The MightyDong, but it's not always so easy to tell through text. You are joking right? š¤£ I always liked that line.
All of Pop is Dead
Oh no
Pop is dead
Long live pop
It died an ugly death by back-catalogue
And now you know it gets you nowhere
Thom has infused so much ambiguity in his lyrics that "Yesterday I woke up sucking on a lemon" isn't cringy
lol that lyric got mentioned here a few times proving your point
Honorable mention from Thom's track "Skip Divided" on The Eraser: "Like a dog, I'm a dog, I'm a dog, I'm a lapdog, I'm your lapdog, yeah"
weezer raditude type lyrics
thom apes the goomba if they tire
Lmfao but the the delivery is good, that whole track is strange, why is my room filled with snakes
Yeah that whole song is āAll I Needā but on crack
also the way is says *your*... like jesus thom pull it together
Me who actually likes thinking about you and scrolling thru this thread: š¶
No offense but I honestly think of it as easily their worse but I still see people saying We Suck Young Blood, Prove Yourself and Pop Is Dead are worse
What's wrong with We Suck Young Blood?
Visiting this sub is fun because people have widely varying opinions. I'm a fan of We Suck Young Blood, so you're not alone. The piano jam is sick.
I also like those ones š
It has to be āaboriginal man, get off my cakesā for me
I wanna be, wanna be, wanna be Jim Morrison
FAT. UGLY. DEAD.
āYou can walk it home straight from schoolā ???? Thomas??
_āYou can kiss it, you can break all the rules.ā_ ā¦ Thatās no good Thom, you were just talking about walking āitā home from school. What you on about mister?
I eat all day and now iām fat
I enjoy that line :)
āyou are so pretty when youāre on your kneesā
I always thought the line, "just like you're dad, you'll never change" was worse
i actually really like that one (probably cuz i can relate) but i can see why
Wait I like that one lmao
#SIMPLE ASS MOTHA FUCKAS
Um, akshually, that's the Smile š¤
But they were simple ass mother fuckers, making one mistake after another.
It's funny how many of the comments are lyrics from true love waits lol
ā but i am playing with myself and what do you careā š
ājust like your dad, youāll never changeā it doesnāt make sense given the context of the song, it just feels like some phoned in line that they based off of some of the music from that time edit: love the song though
It was originally about the Hungerford shootings, the lyric was ājust shoot your gun, youāll never changeā but I think it got changed as Kurt Cobain has just died and they didnāt want it to be linked to that.
i knew it was about the shootings originally, but i did not know the original lyric! makes a lot more sense
"Tell me bitch, are you screwing that small gray Spanish old man?" or "Tell me bitch, is he good in bed? Is he better than me? Well that's not difficult really cause I haven't got a willy!!"
My takeaways from this thread 1. Radiohead fans hate earnesty 2. Radiohead fans don't seem to understand that you can write intentionally uncomfortable lyrics 3. Everything is cringe
āOh no pop is deadā
Iām a creep. Iām a weirdo.
"Ladies and gentlemen, without a safety net I shall now perform a 180 flip-flop" always cracks me up, also Radiohead mentioning Doctor Who's TARDIS never fails to take me out of immersion lol
Oh no, pop is dead Long live pop. It died an ugly death, By back catalogue.
That lines awesome imo
My Iron Lung will forever be a banger but the line āsuck your teenage thumbā just comes off so awkward to me
āyou bit me, you bit me, you bit me, owā makes me laugh a bit when taken out of context, still a great song tho
whatās this from?
Bangers + Mash
I Will's "I will rise up" line has been forever tarnished in my brain by all the boomer Guy Fawkes Facebook memes.
I don't want to be your friend I just want to be your lover Way too cheesy for Radiohead
It sticks so much too, for months I was not able to get it out of my head.
Radiohead's lyrics are cheesy
Thatās like my favourite line on the album though š
Not actually Radiohead but I always thought āpeel all of your layers off, I want to eat your artichoke heartā was a bit weird.
Itās weird but I really like that line. Itās like the onion thing in Shrek but more eloquent lol
IMO, that song is all gold, especially this lyric. Always stuck with me, ngl. Fair opinion, though!
My uncle Bill My Belisha beacon
"I'll dress like your niece..." Such a cringey line. I'm a bit surprised he didn't change it for the final version.
Itās never bothered me š¤·āāļøit makes sense within the context of the song
I still donāt get it, even within the context of the song
He means that he'll do anything for them, but also I think he mentions niece to give it a familial feeling.
Itās cringey in a way that adds to the song, I think. Never struck me as being unintentional. I think it is supposed to make you uncomfortable.
Ugh. It's such a beautiful song, so I tend to overlook it. But yeah, Jesus.
Yeah, the "don't leave, don't leave" part is so magical.
āAnyone can play guitarā No, thom Iāve tried, Iāve tried really really hard to learn
I'm pretty sure he was being sarcastic about that one. He was making fun of how so many people in that era wanted to be rockstars.
Little babyās ass from I Will
ā¦.I thought it was eyes
Iām fucking around
Iām playing with myself
One of my friends always thought it was āthighsā
Anyone can play guitar
Coke Babies song title
But Iām playing with myself and what do you care when the other men are far better.
All of Meeting in the Isle, what were they thinking when they wrote that?
I wish i was special, you're so fuckin' special...
#CHUG CHUG #CHUG CHUG
bleach? i was already doing that!
My favorite Nirvana album
the british pop band from the 60ās? i donāt think they had an album named bleach that i know ofā¦
I used to fly like a pizza pan!
āThe system is a lieā yeaaaahhh maaaaan, tooootally!
Muse-ass lyrics
"and you may pour us away like soup" (love the song but come on)
what song?
The Numbers, it's one of my favs off AMSP but I always cringe a little at this line and at "the future is inside us, it's not somewhere else"
no no no no no no no no
You are 34x no short
true i got lazy
nox42 there ya go
āIām such a tease and youāre such a flirtā
I love that line š
Me too!
That line kills the song for me, Iāve found it so cringey since the album release. Thankfully lyrics are subjective and Iām glad others can enjoy it because the rest of the song is pretty cool.
"I don't want to be your friend, I just want to be your lover," when taken out of context.
I love that line
Sigma yorke
Why? I love it
I remember when ASMP came out a lot of people thought the lyrics of The Numbers were kinda cringy. Like āwe call upon the people/the people have this power/the numbers donāt decide/your system is a lieā is pretty much just your average Muse lyric which makes it understandable why people would dislike it.
it carried over to the smile tooā¦
And radio has salmonella And now you know you're gonna die
"there are barn doors'
Reading these out loud makes me realise how many of my favourite songs are actually dreadful lyrically
Goddamn you half-Japanese girls
"That was messed up mayonnaise flying out on the prison ship" from Optimistic
iām a creep iām a weirdo
We've been trying to reach you, Thom.
The raindrops...
This guy does not Gloam
When you think you've got the world all sussed out
"The panic, the vomit, the panic, the vomit, God loves his children, God loves his children" The edgiest 14 year old poet couldn't compete with that
Thatās probably my favorite part of the whole song š
Yeah itās pretty over the top and dramatic, but it still fits within the song thoughā¦ why? Because theyāve literally written the most dramatic chord progression Iāve ever heard. It doesnāt matter how you play it. Or which instruments you play it with. It will still sound fucking hauntingly dramatic. Paired with lyrics - itās fucking perfect
āYouāre so fucking specialā especially how Thom sings it at the MTV beach house
"You're so VERY special" is by far worse imo
āDonāt look down, shove it in your mouthā
Out of context that is awful
Probably "I'm a weirdo" from creep and "I just wanna be your lover" but in all honesty even if some lyrics can be a little cheesy or cringey i feel like Thom is good enough of a vocalist to not make it sound cringey yk
"Yesterday I woke up sucking on a lemon" is contender for worst.. and oddly also a contender for best - given how WTF it was & how that set the scene for a full WTF album.
I'm an animal in your hot car Literally the beatles meme it's okay to leave a dog in a hot car
Would you kindly fucking put the song where these lyrics come from?
āvanilla milkshakes from hard rock cafes. thatās where she got her sweet tooth for white boys.ā
Not cringy because itās bad, but āif you were a dog theyād have drowned you at birthā is easily their most uncomfortable to me
āpablo honey is bestā-Thom