Sunday, October 2, 2011

Thesis #1: Paranoid Android

In Radiohead's "Paranoid Android", Thom Yorke uses delirious consonance,  surrealistic imagery, and opaque metaphor in order to create an atmosphere of alienation, paranoia, and confusion, and to convey feelings of contempt, repression, and jealousy.

NOTE: The lyrics are written as they appear in the liner notes of OK Computer. All misspellings and grammatical errors are intentional.

please could you stop the noise im tryin a get some REST?
from all the unbornchikkenVoices in my head?
huh what's that??
when i am king you will be first against the wall
with your opinions which are of no consequence at all
huh what's that??
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaambition makes you look very ugly
k i c k i n g   s q u e a l i n g   g u c c i   l i t t l e   p i g g y
"you don't     remember "why dont you   remember my   name? off with   his head. off with his
head man. why   wont   he reme mber my name? "
""i guess he does_ "

raindownraindown come on raind down on me
from a great height. from a gra/eeaa haaaeeeeeiii. haaaaeeeeeiiii
rain down rain down come on rain down on me
froma great height. from a great aaaaaaeeeeee
raindownrain down   come on raindown onme.
froma great heightfrom a great

""thats it sir youre leaving "     the crackle of pig skin
the dust & the screaming       the yuppies networking
the panic                               the vomit
the panic                               the vomit
god loves his children            god loves his children yeah!



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