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Rating: -Where are we going?-.
-There-. Thom pointed to the snow-capped peak of a mountain. We were on a checkered, transparent floor intersecting the mountains.
The bus moved silently, as if it had no engine, and I could only hear our breaths.
-In any case, it doesn't matter where but how you go-.
He pulled a CD from the right pocket of his jacket and inserted it into the player. The first notes emerged, and the crumpled, rewound voices of "Everything In Its Right Place" began to be heard.
-Haven't you closed your eyes yet?- Yorke asked. He was already speaking with his eyelids half-closed.
I did the same and began my journey too. I let myself be lulled. I heard nothing else but the music. Thom's lips next to me were moving, but understanding their meaning had become impossible for me.
Then came "Kid A" and "The National Anthem", with its hypnotic, repetitive riff, yet captivating and enveloping. I felt like starting to move convulsively, but I restrained myself. Thom was there.
And then the guitar, the first one, from "How To Disappear Completely", warm, calm, dreamy. So many words are insufficient to describe it.
"Treefingers" is the tunnel, where everyone grasps what they want, finds what they were looking for, and gets lost in it. The forest ends, and the light returns with "Optimistic" and "In Limbo", the prelude to "Idioteque", the one you wait for, the one you love, in all its electronic beauty.
Then "Morning Bell". Next to me, while driving, Thom sings his own songs again. He knows them by heart. The voice is muffled, drum and bass slowly lead to madness and ecstasy, even. I liked this one. I ask Thom if I can listen to it again, and he kindly rewinds and pleases me.
Everything closes with "Motion Picture Soundtrack", a slow march accompanied by the organ.
Then, after 50 minutes, it all ends. The music stops as it started, leaving you with that stirring and fusion of emotions that only experimentation can give.
Thom puts the CD back in the same pocket it came from and looks at me questioningly. -So?-
-Strange, but I like it- I say.
-A rating?-
-Four out of five. I miss the guitars from the previous ones-.
-Ok-. The journey was over, and now silence had returned.
Tracklist Lyrics Samples and Videos
01 Everything in Its Right Place (06:04)
Kid A, Kid A
Kid A, Kid A
Everything
Everything
Everything
Everything in its right place
In its right place
In its right place
In its right place
Yesterday I woke up sucking a lemon
Yesterday I woke up sucking a lemon
Yesterday I woke up sucking a lemon
Yesterday I woke up sucking a lemon
Everything
Everything
Everything
Everything in its right place
In its right place
In its right place
Right place
There are two colours in my head
There are two colours in my head
What, what is that you tried to say?
What, what was that you tried to say?
Tried to say
Tried to say
Tried to say
Tried to say
Everything in its right place ... (to end)
02 How to Disappear Completely (06:37)
That there
That's not me
I go
Where I please
I walk through walls
I float down the Liffey
I'm not here
This isn't happening
I'm not here
I'm not here
In a little while
I'll be gone
The moment's already passed
Yeah it's gone
And I'm not here
This isn't happening
I'm not here
I'm not here
Strobe lights and blown speakers
Fireworks and hurricanes
I'm not here
This isn't happening
I'm not here
I'm not here
03 Idioteque (04:12)
Who's in a bunker?
Who's in a bunker?
Women and children first
And the children first
And the children
I'll laugh until my head comes off
I'll swallow till I burst
Until I burst
Until I
Who's in a bunker?
Who's in a bunker?
I have seen too much
I haven't seen enough
You haven't seen enough
I'll laugh until my head comes off
Women and children first
And children first
And children
Here I'm alive
Everything all of the time
Here I'm allowed
Everything all of the time
Ice age comin'
Ice age comin'
Let me hear both sides
Let me hear both sides
Let me hear both
Ice age comin'
Ice age comin'
Throw it on the fire
Throw it on the fire
Throw it on the
We're not scaremongering
This is really happening
Happening
We're not scaremongering
This is really happening
Happening
Mobiles skwrking
Mobiles chirping
Take the money and run
Take the money and run
Take the money
(The first of the children)
(The first of the children)
(The first of the children)
(The first of the children)
(The first of the children)
(The first of the children)
Here I'm alive
Everything all of the time
Here I'm alive
Everything all of the time
(The first of the children)
(The first of the children)
(The first of the children)
(The first of the children)
(The first of the children)
(The first of the children)
Here I'm allowed
Everything all of the time
Here I'm allowed
Everything all of the time
The first of the children
The first of the children
The first of the children
The first of the children
The first of the children
The first of the children
The first of the children
The first of the children
The first of the children
The first of the children
The first of the children
The first of the children
The first of the children
The first of the children
04 The National Anthem (04:43)
Everyone
Everyone around here
Everyone is so near
It's holding on
It's holding on
Everyone
Everyone is so near
Everyone has got the fear
It's holding on
It's holding on
It's holding on
It's holding on
It's holding on
05 Optimistic (04:39)
Flies are buzzing round my head
Vultures circling the dead
Picking up every last crumb
The big fish eat the little ones
The big fish eat the little ones
Not my problem, give me some
You can try the best you can
If you try the best you can
The best you can is good enough
If you try the best you can
If you try the best you can
The best you can is good enough
This one's optimistic
This one went to market
This one just came out of the swamp
This one dropped a payload
Fodder for the animals
Living on animal farm
If you try the best you can
If you try the best you can
The best you can is good enough
If you try the best you can
If you try the best you can
The best you can is good enough
I'd really like to help you, man
I'd really like to help you, man
Nervous messed up marionettes
Floating around on a prison ship
If you try the best you can
If you try the best you can
The best you can is good enough
If you can try the best you can
If you try the best you can
Dinosaurs roaming the Earth
Dinosaurs roaming the Earth
Dinosaurs roaming the Earth
06 Morning Bell (04:25)
The morning bell
The morning bell
Light another candle and
Release me
Release me
You can keep the furniture
A bump on the head
Howling down the chimney
Release me
Release me
Please
Release me
Release me
Where'd you park the car?
Where'd you park the car?
Clothes are on the lawn with the furniture
Now I might as well
I might as well
Sleepy jack the fire drill
Round and round and round
Cut the kids in half
Cut the kids in half
Cut the kids in half
I wanted to tell you but you never listened
You never understand
I wanted to tell you but you never listened
You never understand
Cos I'm walking walking walking ...
The lights are on but nobody's home
Everybody wants to be a
The lights are on but nobody's home
Everybody wants to be a slave
Walking walking walking ...
The lights are on but nobody's at home
Everybody wants to be a
Everyone wants to be a friend
Nobody wants to be a slave
Walking walking walking ...
07 The National Anthem (05:01)
Everyone
Everyone around here
Everyone is so near
It's holding on
It's holding on
Everyone
Everyone is so near
Everyone has got the fear
It's holding on
It's holding on
It's holding on
It's holding on
It's holding on
08 How to Disappear Completely (05:56)
That there
That's not me
I go
Where I please
I walk through walls
I float down the Liffey
I'm not here
This isn't happening
I'm not here
I'm not here
In a little while
I'll be gone
The moment's already passed
Yeah it's gone
And I'm not here
This isn't happening
I'm not here
I'm not here
Strobe lights and blown speakers
Fireworks and hurricanes
I'm not here
This isn't happening
I'm not here
I'm not here
09 In Limbo (04:42)
Lundy, Fastnet, Irish Sea
I got a message I can't read
Another message I can't read
Being the first in the Irish Sea
I got a message I can't read
Another message I can't read
I'm on your side
Nowhere to hide
Trapdoors that open
I spiral down
You're living in a fantasy world
You're living in a fantasy world
I'm lost at sea
Don't bother me
I've lost my way
I've lost my way
You're living in a fantasy world
You're living in a fantasy world
You're living in a fantasy world
This beautiful world
Lundy, Fastnet, Irish Sea
I got a message I can't read
Another message I can't read
10 Idioteque (04:12)
Who's in a bunker?
Who's in a bunker?
Women and children first
And the children first
And the children
I'll laugh until my head comes off
I'll swallow till I burst
Until I burst
Until I
Who's in a bunker?
Who's in a bunker?
I have seen too much
I haven't seen enough
You haven't seen enough
I'll laugh until my head comes off
Women and children first
And children first
And children
Here I'm alive
Everything all of the time
Here I'm allowed
Everything all of the time
Ice age comin'
Ice age comin'
Let me hear both sides
Let me hear both sides
Let me hear both
Ice age comin'
Ice age comin'
Throw it on the fire
Throw it on the fire
Throw it on the
We're not scaremongering
This is really happening
Happening
We're not scaremongering
This is really happening
Happening
Mobiles skwrking
Mobiles chirping
Take the money and run
Take the money and run
Take the money
(The first of the children)
(The first of the children)
(The first of the children)
(The first of the children)
(The first of the children)
(The first of the children)
Here I'm alive
Everything all of the time
Here I'm alive
Everything all of the time
(The first of the children)
(The first of the children)
(The first of the children)
(The first of the children)
(The first of the children)
(The first of the children)
Here I'm allowed
Everything all of the time
Here I'm allowed
Everything all of the time
The first of the children
The first of the children
The first of the children
The first of the children
The first of the children
The first of the children
The first of the children
The first of the children
The first of the children
The first of the children
The first of the children
The first of the children
The first of the children
The first of the children
11 Everything in Its Right Place (06:42)
Kid A, Kid A
Kid A, Kid A
Everything
Everything
Everything
Everything in its right place
In its right place
In its right place
In its right place
Yesterday I woke up sucking a lemon
Yesterday I woke up sucking a lemon
Yesterday I woke up sucking a lemon
Yesterday I woke up sucking a lemon
Everything
Everything
Everything
Everything in its right place
In its right place
In its right place
Right place
There are two colours in my head
There are two colours in my head
What, what is that you tried to say?
What, what was that you tried to say?
Tried to say
Tried to say
Tried to say
Tried to say
Everything in its right place ... (to end)
12 Motion Picture Soundtrack (03:55)
Red wine and sleeping pills
Help me get back to your arms
Cheap sex and sad films
Help me get where I belong
I think you're crazy, maybe
I think you're crazy, maybe
Stop sending letters
Letters always get burned
It's not like the movies
They fed us on little white lies
I think you're crazy, maybe
I think you're crazy, maybe
I will see you in the next life
'''Original last verse not included on Kid A:'''
Beautiful angel
Pulled apart at birth
Limbless and helpless
I can't even recognize you
I think you're crazy, maybe
I think you're crazy, maybe
I think you're crazy, maybe
I think you're crazy, maybe
I think you're crazy, maybe
I think you're crazy, maybe
I will see you in the next life
13 True Love Waits (05:04)
I'll drown my beliefs
To have you be in peace
I'll dress like your niece
And wash your swollen feet
Just don't leave
Don't leave
I'm not living
I'm just killing time
Your tiny hands
Your crazy kitten smile
Just, don't leave
Don't leave
And true love waits
In haunted attics
And true love lives
On lollipops and crisps
Just lonely, lonely..
Don't leave..
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