Bodysnatchers

Album: In Rainbows (2007)
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  • 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'm trapped in this body and can't get out
    Oh, oh
    Oh, oh

    You killed the sound
    Removed backbone
    Pale imitation
    With the edges all
    Sawn off

    I have no idea what you are talking about
    Your mouth moves only with someone's hand up your arse
    Oh, oh

    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 alive

    I've seen it coming
    I've seen it coming
    I've seen it coming
    I've seen it coming Writer/s: Colin Charles Greenwood, Edward John O'Brien, Jonathan Richard Guy Greenwood, Philip James Selway, Thomas Edward Yorke
    Publisher: Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 8

  • Gray from ClevelandBrilliant.
  • Anima Mundi from South AfricaThis song symbolizes the beginning of most LSD trips I have experience - it sounds and describes exactly how I feel at the time, even the lyrics! I am anxious, excited, unsure and sure all at the same time; a motley crew of heightened and agitated emotions, realities and hallucinations all thrown together with an underlying tone of merriment. Luckily not the stripper part at least - that must be really hectic.
  • Valo from Moscow, Russia FederationThe other guitar-driven track Bangers and Mash has a guitar ыуе similar to Bassheads - Is There Anybody Out There

    Ben, doing u2 better than u2 is not har at all, really
  • Bobby B from North West, United KingdomTheir most Pablo Honey-esque track in years, in my opinion. Much more mature and well rounded, but the soloing towards the end (and especially the bent note on the guitar slowly falling at the very end) is typical of the way they ended their rockier songs on P.H.
  • Nelson from P-goula, MsWhen I went to the first concert in ATL during May 2008, I remember Thom saying this song was about a party he attended where the drinks had been laced with acid. Then everyone turned into strippers.

    Did anyone else hear this at the concert or a similar one somewhere?
  • Ben from Lexington, KyThe second half of this song to me always sounds like Radiohead doing U2 better than U2.
  • Joe from Baltimore, MdAlthough the album itself is phenomenonal, I think this track truly stands out from the others. Great song!
  • Horatio from Washington, DcCould part of it be inspired by the memoir Le scaphandre et le papillon (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly) by French journalist Jean-Dominique Bauby? Bauby had a stroke and was only able to blink one eye - once for Yes, twice for No. He had what what is called "Locked-in syndrome" in which he was fully conscious, but "trapped" in his body.
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