RADIOHEAD – IN RAINBOWS - LYRICS
TRACKLIST:
15 STEP
3:57
BODYSNATCHERS
4:02
NUDE
4:15
WEIRD FISHES/ARPEGGI
5:18
ALL I NEED
3:48
FAUST ARP
2:09
RECKONER
4:50
HOUSE OF CARDS
5:28
JIGSAW FALLING INTO PLACE
4:09
VIDEOTAPE
4:39
LYRICS:
15 STEP
3:57
How come I end up where I started
How come I end up where I went wrong 
Won't take my eyes off the ball again
You reel me out then you cut the string 

How come I end up where I started
How come I end up where I went wrong 
Won't take my eyes off the ball again
You reel me out then you cut the string 

You used to be alright
What happened?
Did the cat get your tongue
Did your string come undone
One by one
One by one
It comes to us all
It's as soft as your pillow 

You used to be alright
What happened?
Etcetera etcetera
Facts for whatever 
Fifteen steps
Then a shear drop 



            
BODYSNATCHERS
4:02
I do not
Understand
What it is
I've done wrong
Full of holes
Check for pulse
Blink your eyes
One for yes
Two for no

I have no idea what I am talking about
I am trapped in this body and can't get out
Ooooohhhh

You killed the sound 
removed backbone 
A pale imitation 
With the edges
Sawn off

I have no idea what you are talking about
Your mouth moves only with someone's hand up your ass 
Ooooohhhh


Has the light gone out for you?
Because the light's gone for me
It is the 21st century 
It is the 21st century 
It can follow you like a dog 
It brought me to my knees
They got a skin and they put me in 
They got a skin and they put me in 
All the lines wrapped around my face 
All the lines wrapped around my face 
And for anyone else to see
And for anyone else to see

I'm a lie 

I've seen it coming
I've seen it coming
I've seen it coming
I've seen it coming 



        
NUDE
4:15
Don't get any big ideas
they're not gonna happen 
You paint yourself white
and feel up with noise 
but there'll be something missing

Now that you've found it, it's gone 
Now that you feel it, you don't
You've gone off the rails
So don't get any big ideas
they're not going to happen
You'll go to hell for what your dirty mind is thinking



        
WEIRD FISHES/ARPEGGI
5:18
In the deepest ocean
The bottom of the sea 
Your eyes
They turn me
Why should I stay here?
Why should I stay?

I'd be crazy not to follow
Follow where you lead 
Your eyes
They turn me

Turn me on to phantoms 
I follow to the edge of the earth
And fall off
Everybody leaves
If they get the chance
And this is my chance

I get eaten by the worms 
Weird fishes
Get picked over by the worms
Weird fishes
I'll hit the bottom

Hit the bottom and escape
Escape



        
ALL I NEED
3:48
I'm the next act
waiting in the wings
I'm an animal
Trapped in your hot car 
I am all the days 
that you choose to ignore

You are all I need
You are all I need 
I'm in the middle of your picture
Lying in the reeds 

I am a moth 
who just wants to share your light 
I'm just an insect 
trying to get out of the night

I only stick with you 
because there are no others

You are all I need
You are all I need 
I'm in the middle of your picture
Lying in the reeds
 
It's all wrong
It's all right
It's all wrong



        
FAUST ARP
2:09
One two three four

Wakey wakey
rise and shine
it's on again, off again, on again
watch me fall
like dominos
in pretty patterns
fingers in the blackbird pie
I'm tingling, tingling, tingling
it's what you feel now
what you ought to, what you ought to
reasonable and sensible
dead from the neck up
because I'm stuffed, stuffed, stuffed
we thought you had it in you
but no, no, no
for no real reason

Squeeze the tubes and empty bottles
and take a bow, take a bow, take a bow
it's what you feel now
what you ought to, what you ought to
an elephant that's in the room is
tumbling, tumbling, tumbling
in duplicate and triplicate and 
plastic bags and
duplicate and triplicate
dead from the neck up
I guess I'm stuffed, stuffed, stuffed
we thought you had it in you
but no, no, no
exactly where do you get off
is enough, is enough
I love you but enough is enough, enough
a last stop
there's no real reason

You've got a head full of feathers
you got melted to butter



        
RECKONER
4:50
Reckoner
You can't take it with you
Dancing for your pleasure 

You are not to blame for
Bittersweet distractor
Dare not speak its name
Dedicated to all you
all human beings 

Because we separate like 
ripples on a blank shore 
(in rainbows) 
Because we separate like 
ripples on a blank shore 
(in rainbows) 

Reckoner

Take me with you 
Dedicated to all you 
all human beings 



        
HOUSE OF CARDS
5:28
I don't want to be your friend
I just want to be your lover
No matter how it ends
No matter how it starts

Forget about your house of cards
And I'll do mine
Forget about your house of cards
And I'll do mine

Fall off the table,
Get swept under
Denial, denial

The infrastructure will collapse
Voltage spikes 
Throw your keys in the bowl
Kiss your husband goodnight 

Forget about your house of cards
And I'll do mine
Forget about your house of cards
And I'll do mine

Fall off the table,
And get swept under

Denial, denial
Denial, denial
Your ears should be burning
Denial, denial
Your ears should be burning
Denial, denial




        
JIGSAW FALLING INTO PLACE
4:09
Just as you take my hand
Just as you write my number down
Just as the drinks arrive
Just as they play your favorite song
As your bad day disappears
No longer wound up like a spring
Before you've had too much
Come back in focus again

The walls are bending shape
You got a cheshire cat grin
All blurring into one
This place is on a mission

Before the night owl
Before the animal noises
Closed circuit cameras
Before you comatose

Before you run away from me
Before you're lost between the notes
The beat goes round and round
The beat goes round and round

I never really got there
I just pretended that I had
Words are blunt instruments
Words are sawn off shotguns

Come on and let it out
Before you run away from me
Before your lost between the notes
Just as you take the mic
Just as you dance, dance, dance

A Jigsaw falling into place
So there is nothing to explain
You eye each other as you pass
She looks back and you look back
Not just once
and not just twice
Wish away your nightmare
Wish away the nightmare
You got the light you can feel it on your back
[A light,] you can feel it on your back
Your jigsaw falling into place



        
VIDEOTAPE
4:39
When I'm at the pearly gates
This will be on my videotape, my videotape
Mephistopheles is just beneath
and he's reaching up to grab me

This is one for the good days
and i have it all here
In red, blue, green
Red, blue, green

You are my center
When i spin away
Out of control on videotape
On videotape
On videotape
On videotape

This is my way of saying goodbye
Because I can't do it face to face
I'm talking to you before

No matter what happens now
You shouldn't be afraid
Because I know today has been the most perfect day I've ever seen.