Here you are boys and girls, I hope you like it! Send any corrections/comments to zoolake@gmail.com
The Riff:
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A-------------------------3--3---5--5--5--3--3---5--5--5--|
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The Chord Progression:
Am G C Dm
The Bridge:
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Am G c Dm
What will grow quickly, that you can't make straight
C Dm
It's the price you gotta pay
Do yourself a favour and pack you bags
Buy a ticket and get on the train
Buy a ticket and get on the train
Cause this is fucked up, fucked up
Cause this is fucked up, fucked up
People get crushed like biscuit crumbs
And laid down in the bed you made
You have tried your best to please everyone
But it just isn't happening
No, it just isn't happening
And it's fucked up, fucked up
And this is fucked up, fucked up
This your blind spot, blind spot
It should be obvious, but it's not.
But it isn't, but it isn't
You cannot kickstart a dead horse
You just crush yourself and walk away
I don't care what the future holds
Cause I'm right here in your arms today
With your fingers you can touch me
I'm your black swan, black swan
But I made it to the top, made it to the top
This is fucked up, fucked up
You are fucked up, fucked up
This is fucked up, fucked up
Be your black swan, black swan
I'm for spare parts, broken up
Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques
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Michael Average |
#1 by Michael Vanderveen at Oct 1, 2007 at 12:35 AM EST |
| also, this is the most obviously anti-Bush song, although it can also look like a love song from certain angles. | |
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John Lead Player |
#2 by John Fitch at Oct 2, 2007 at 4:59 AM EST |
| Unfortunately "hippy morons" are not in the majority except when it comes to groups such as "fans of left-wing, socially-conscious musicians/bands" (that shouldn't really be in quotation marks but it helps to define the sentence). And I don't see how someone is a "hippy moron" if they are merely concerned with the fact that the human race is unlikely to be in existence in 20 years time if we keep going the way we currently are. I prefer the term "sensible, logical people" to the term "hippy morons" as it is far closer to the truth. So take some acid and chill out with a big spliff man, that way you can at least momentarily forget about the ticking time-bomb that is this planet.......(!!!) ha, blah...spa | |
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marvin Lead Player |
#3 by marvin at Oct 2, 2007 at 10:39 PM EST |
| this song is definitely bout blair n not bush. he hasnt been pissed off at bush in a while. nice interpretation badge, thats what i thought the first time i heard the song | |
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Celebrimbor Rhythm Player |
#4 by Celebrimbor Calaelen at Oct 3, 2007 at 8:43 PM EST |
| I like your interpretation, badge, and it makes the line about 'bitumen' make sense to me. There could be other interpretations. One of them could be more personal, about being part of Radiohead or just the music industry. But if I take the entire lyrics in context, I think your interpretation makes a lot more sense. | |
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chOxY Rhythm Player |
#5 by chOxY at Oct 3, 2007 at 9:20 PM EST |
| yea it is "lay down in the bitumen" Appers. also i think that one set of lines is actually: "You cannot kickstart a dead horse You just cross yourself and walk away I don't care what the future holds Cause I'm right here in your arms today With your fingers you can touch me" I think the song is pretty straight forward, that you can't please everyone which would make life feel right, so he takes a "live in the moment" philosophy while in the arms of someone he loves. the dead horse is probably just our predicament as human beings, and the processes we have to live by. it can't really be changes, we are what we are. | |
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Scott Average |
#6 by Scott Anderson at Oct 5, 2007 at 12:32 PM EST |
| Yorke isn't a Bush loving Republican and he is also certainly not a Democratic John Kerry Crybaby. Yorke has never poured his heartout in political angst over a government that he doesn't belong to in song, he never has supported bush but his dissent has always been reserved to saying how its crazy that the looneys have control. Everything in entertainment isn't just about Bush...If you want Anti-Bush music, go listen to NOFX and Greenday His concern is over the United Kingdom's Prime Minister and the current state of the world...not the American President and the political standings of US government. How in the fuck did all these Hippy morons get to be the majority? I'm so sick of these people trying to re-live the spirit of the 60's and 70's...ITS OVER! | |
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edwin Wanna Be |
#7 by edwin henrriquez at Oct 7, 2007 at 7:29 AM EST |
| Absolutely love this song...its got so much meaning to it. Even though Bush is English it sounds like a good anti-bush song. I'm not sure if it is though... ..."I don't care what the future holds Cause I'm right here and I'm today..." these are my favorite lines from this song...because Bush does not give a fuck about any of us today..maybe just the white people...he is just concerned about the future, and if u ask me ha has fucked that up too. | |
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Garland Rhythm Player |
#8 by Garland Cross at Oct 8, 2007 at 4:21 AM EST |
| not to sound like the typical radiohead/thom yorke fancier (i wont use fanatic, i wont ) but thom's music is so cathartic in the strangest way... emotions burst through a series of all these metaphors, much stronger than saying the words themselves this song is one of my favorites, on the album, next to analyse. | |
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Guitar Master Wanna Be |
#9 by Guitar Master J at Oct 8, 2007 at 5:27 AM EST |
| "and laid down in the bed you made" i think. he just spits "bed" out so furiously it sort of sounds like bit or bitch. | |
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Dean Rhythm Player |
#10 by Dean M at Oct 12, 2007 at 1:14 AM EST |
| frag - ok. i actually agree with you that the song isn't about bush, as such. but on the other hand the suggestion that someone who doesn't live in america has no reason to have an opinion about bush struck me as kinda ludicrous. america being the most powerful country in the world and all of that jazz does have the side effect of giving everybody living in said world some stake in what actions it takes. a specific example: thom's position on, say, global warming is well known. the US is responsible for - i believe - about 25% of global carbon emissions. yet bush continues to act as though nothing is happening. i mean even if you think bush is right and yorke is wrong, you have to admit, it's a reason to have an opinion. and hippie morons are in the majority because we're awesome. it's ok, though. we love you. | |
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Berenice Average |
#11 by Berenice Issaris at Oct 12, 2007 at 3:14 AM EST |
| so what exactly *does* thom yorke think about bush, do you figure? | |
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Joe Average |
#12 by Joe Fitzpatrick at Oct 12, 2007 at 7:21 PM EST |
| i love it, almost everything i've heard off of this album has that 'casually funky' sound to it. the record is groovy man. | |
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Steil Wanna Be |
#13 by Steil Lionhart at Oct 13, 2007 at 12:46 PM EST |
| oh, we'll still be in existence in 20 years. we'll be bumming pretty hard, though. | |
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Dusty Wanna Be |
#14 by Dusty Delonge at Oct 14, 2007 at 4:59 AM EST |
| http://www.emergic.org/collections/tech_talk_black_swans.html "Nassim Taleb goes on [in Edge] to ask and discuss some very important questions: 'The puzzling question is why is it that we humans don't realize that we don't know anything about the significant brand of randomness? Why don't we realize that we are not that capable of predicting? Why don't we notice the bias that causes us not to realize that we're not learning from our experiences? Why do we still keep going as if we understand them?'" | |
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Mike Average |
#15 by Mike Dawgg at Oct 14, 2007 at 9:06 AM EST |
| fragmentation, i agree with your interpretation of the lines: "i dont care what the future holds coz im right here and im today with your fingers you can touch me" i never thought of it that way but those lines seemed contradictory so it makes sense that he is criticizing people who are selfish and only care about the present. I also think this song can have different interpretations, and it would probably be wrong to just see one of them. It works from the very personal to the political. | |
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bob Average |
#16 by bob bob at Oct 14, 2007 at 9:15 PM EST |
| not to sound like the typical radiohead/thom yorke fancier (i wont use fanatic, i wont ) but thom's music is so cathartic in the strangest way... emotions burst through a series of all these metaphors, much stronger than saying the words themselves this song is one of my favorites, on the album, next to analyse. | |
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Steil Wanna Be |
#17 by Steil Lionhart at Oct 16, 2007 at 7:44 PM EST |
| Nodima your fucking dumb, Thom Yorke is english why would he give a fuck about Bush? | |
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Dudey Average |
#18 by Dudey at Oct 17, 2007 at 11:59 AM EST |
| love this beat. yorke is 'fucked up' in the best possible way. | |
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Bye! Average |
#19 by Bye! at Oct 18, 2007 at 6:06 AM EST |
| Ok, felt I had to comment. Maybe the dead horse is Britain...formerly THE world superpower, now nothing more than America's bitch. Anti-Blair song then: "Buy a ticket and get on the train"...fuck off Blair you ain't doin your country or the world no good. This fits in with the rest of the lyrics... "And lay down in the bitumen": blood for oil, conspiracy theorists claim the war in Iraq is mainly to do with getting a huge pipeline built to give the West greater control of world oil supplies, bitumen is a compound found in petroleum and can be used as fuel as well as in other areas. "People get crushed like biscuit crumbs"...huge death tolls in Iraq, including increasing numbers of British soldiers. "You have tried your best to please everyone, But it just isn't happening": reference to how Blair is a complete coward who rarely does anything other than follow the leader, in this case Bush? I don't know if I'm right on any of this buI thinkt it is an interpretation worth considering | |
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Marks Average |
#20 by Marks at Oct 18, 2007 at 12:29 PM EST |
| the kickstart a dead horse line is like the phrase 'flogging a dead horse' you just can't do it, so its saying stop trying to do impossible things. The song sounds like its saying, im right you're wrong | |
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jordan Porreca Lead Player |
#21 by jordan Porreca porreca at Oct 20, 2007 at 1:41 AM EST |
| Nodima your fucking dumb, Thom Yorke is english why would he give a fuck about Bush? | |
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Alexander Wanna Be |
#22 by Alexander Taule at Oct 20, 2007 at 5:36 AM EST |
| i think it's "what will grow crooked, you can't make straight." | |
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David Average |
#23 by David Tims at Oct 21, 2007 at 9:48 AM EST |
| I love the style of this song! It's like, if Go To Sleep was a person, it's him getting and going to work on the gritty, dystopian future's public transport. It's so casually funky its great! Like "Dude. Everything fucked up but hey, let's enjoy the ride." My first favourite of the album, anyway. Are you sure it's "bed you made"? It sounds like he's singing bitumen. I could well be wrong, though. | |
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Turd Fergeson Lead Player |
#24 by Turd Fergeson Fergeson at Oct 21, 2007 at 5:37 PM EST |
| this is not an Anti-Bush song. The in the hell is it that people who dont support the American president are so quick to just start proclaiming something is on thier side without looking into the views of the author of the thing in question? You self-serving assholes, not everything is about your stupid little grudge, not everyone in entertainment is out to further the anti-bush agenda either. The same thing happend last time Radiohead released Hail to the Thief, people automaticly proclaimed the title to be an anti-bush statement, they never bothered to read the interviews and statements of the band stating that it has nothing to do with president bush, Yorke even said he'd never make "Dated music". This song is simply speaking to the tone of how fucked up everything is in the world AS A WHOLE, not placing the blame but rather commentating about how shit is just getting out of hand and its really our own fault. I/E: "I don't care what the future holds Cause I'm right here and I'm today With your fingers you can touch me" Selfish and shortsighted thinking is waht is gonna kill us all, we dont care about tomorrow because we live in today. This your blind spot, blind spot It should be obvious, but it's not. But it isn't, but it isn't | |
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CHUNK ZIZZLE Rhythm Player |
#25 by CHUNK ZIZZLE at Oct 21, 2007 at 10:21 PM EST |
| http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_swan Black Swans can also refer to Statistics Outlier or events outside of our normal expectations, like a swan turning out to be black. | |
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