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review de Musicomh.com
“Personal desolation is never far away in the lyrics, as with Analyse : « There’s no time to analyse, to think things through, to make sense... it gets you down, you’re just playing a part... » Yorke’s near-to-tears wail is the perfect instrument to lament such thoughts, and lovely piano and synth chords combine to make music for an airless, light-reduced space. Whether he’s singing about the music industry machine that Radiohead has become, or life in general, is less clear.”

version live lors de la remise des prix du Mercury Music Awards début 2006

Commentaires :

Q : « Your writing has always been intensely personal and conflicted, but because your voice is so up front on The Eraser, the words and images come through so vividly, as in ’Analyse’. »

Thom : « [sings] ’Powercuts and blackouts/Sleeping like babies.’ I used to live in central Oxford, on one of those historical streets, with all these houses built in the 1860s. I came home one night and for some reason, the street had a powercut. The houses were all dark, with candlelight in the windows, which is obviously how it would have been when they were built. It was beautiful. »

(Rolling Stone, june 1st 2006)

« The One you’re looking for » apparaît dans deux des fiches de paroles écrites à la main par Thom, scannées et mises en ligne au format PDF sur le site theeraser.net en 2006 :

transcription :

open your door and i’ll come in
be easier now & just cave in
open your door and let me in
unlock your door and i’ll come in
i am the one your looking for

you open your door and let me in
unlock the possibility
be easy now and just do not hide
the one that you been looking for

open the door and i’ll blow in
unlock your door & let me in
be easy now and just not think
the one your looking for
 ?(i am the one your looking for)

et :

transcription :

your moon is out orbit
your tide has turned but wont turn back
be easier to let it slip
be easy now be easy now

resist because you are a mess
an animal thats in distress
in peace in love in peace in love
im the one your looking for

open your door + ill blow in
unlock the door + let me in
be easy now + just give in
im the one your looking for be easy now be easy now

de même, les mots « endless possibilities » apparaissent là :

transcription :

this is your chance for happiness
you resist because you are a mess
and all these things will come to thee(?)
in endless possibilities

open your and go with it
i am not about to let you slip
the answers are within your reach
so long as you don’t panic
a pulse from other stations
from future generations
a pulse

open your mind. switch to receive
the endless possibilities.
a pulse from other stations i’m not about to let you slip
from future generations
the answers are within your reach.

Thom Yorke nous a offert une version live retravaillée (sûrement pour être plus facile à jouer en live) au micro de la radio de XFM et aux Mercury Prize Awards.