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Subterranean Homesick Alien Tab

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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques


No Picture sharon Wanna Be	#1 by sharon howell at Jun 29, 1973 at 1:55 PM EST
	You people are aware that the song's an allusion to Bob Dylan's Subterranean Homesick Blues, right?

No Picture brennan Average	#2 by brennan collins at Jul 20, 1975 at 9:01 PM EST
	this song is about lonliness. and how you can get to a certain stage of isolation where you feel like an alien. It isn't necesarily about some sort of cry your eyes out, suicidal depression, but about being so self aware that you just feel awkward, and how no one takes you serious. maybe that isn't the way Yorke felt when he wrote it, but thats the way I take it. It makes an awful lot of sense to me when I look at it from that view.

No Picture Erin Rhythm Player	#3 by Erin at Jul 20, 1978 at 12:20 AM EST
	Well said, Daisy... "The breath of the morning I keep forgetting the smell of the warm summer air" God, that line is so heartbreaking... It would be so sad to forget those little things that hold so much beauty and bliss.

No Picture sephiroth Average	#4 by sephiroth at Dec 19, 1982 at 1:11 PM EST
	This album is a concept album about technology and the icolation it causes it is about how conservative sociaty (and the goverment) is becoming. This song in paticular is about conservatvness and how strange people are to "lock up their spirits" "Drill holes in themselves and live for their secrets" Thom said in an interveiw that he got the idea for the song when he was in school and the teacher asked the class to picture the world as if they were aliens and they were seeing it for the first time and did not understand why people were doing the things they were doing.

No Picture Colin Wanna Be	#5 by Colin Gauld at Dec 13, 1988 at 8:00 AM EST
	i think its saying that if a person ever were to come look at earth, they would just see how secretive, unfriendly, and non-sociable this world is becoming. i think he feels that he is alone in the sense that no one trusts each other enough to share feelings, secrets, or emotions with. he wants to be drawn out of this world, maybe not by aliens, but just by some force. thats my opinion though...i too live in a 'hick' town and am one of the only ones that like radiohead

No Picture Jon Badass	#6 by Jon Coath at Sep 26, 1993 at 8:55 AM EST
	I love the guitar intro to this song. It's so great.

No Picture Jason Rhythm Player	#7 by Jason ...... at Jan 14, 1995 at 2:27 PM EST
	This is such a beautiful song, and one of my favorite Radiohead songs. This song seemed to reach out to me when I heard "they'd shut me away, but i'd be alright, i'm just up-tight" which means his friends don't understand him, or they don't have the same dreams as him, as if they're perfectly okay living in a world where "you can't smell a thing" and "you watch your feet for cracks in the pavement," and he wants something new.

No Picture Badass	#8 by guess wha' i suck at Oct 31, 1995 at 10:22 PM EST
	this song to me feels like someone thats living in a town that just bores them to death and wants to escape, "i live in a town where you cant smell a thing" meaning its just devoid of flavor, the people living here are all drones. theres nothing in this town for him. he wishes for an abduction to escape this boredom that is his life.

No Picture Daniel Average	#9 by Daniel Gordon at May 10, 1999 at 11:19 PM EST
	i agree with electioneer

No Picture Jesse Wanna Be	#10 by Jesse Seibel at Aug 14, 2002 at 9:05 AM EST
	To me it's about alienation and feeling that you're different from everybody around you "all these weird creatures who lock up their spirits" and about how you just know that there are more people like you out there but you can't seem to find them, you wish they'd just find you and take you in, and it's driving you crazy. I live in a hick town and I'm like the only person I know who likes Radiohead... So that's probably why I see the song as I see it.

No Picture Matthew Average	#11 by Matthew Spencer at Oct 29, 2005 at 8:18 PM EST
	i agree with stardroplet. i think the character in the song is feeling emotionally alone and is just wishing for something special to happen. It seems that the character is tired of a mundane existance and dreams of something that would make the universe interesting and exciting.