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• Adam from Lowestoft UkGreat piano version by Ramin Djawadi on the Westworld soundtrack
• Zg from Land Of BooksApparently some commentators haven’t read R&J- or at the very least- thoroughly. Lord Capulet DID allow Romeo near him (the Capulet ball). In fact, when Tybalt, offended by the young Montague’s presence at Lord Capulet’s ball, wanted to fight Romeo, Lord Capulet (Juliet’s father) forbade it. He even acknowledged Romeo’s good reputation. Whoever said he would have not allowed a Montague near him is obviously wrong.
  
  Furthermore, Lord C cares about his daughter’s happiness which is why he agrees to Paris’s proposal but ONLY if his daughter reciprocates Paris’s affection.
  
  One may conclude that Lord C may have been supportive (with Friar Lawrence’s help of course) of Romeo and Juliet. To claim he would have killed Romeo and his daughter for their romance seems a tad off…
• Claudia from BelgiumIt was also used as the exit music for Black Mirror's episode 3 of season 3 (called 'Shut Up and Dance')
• Kaz from UkThis is about the defiance of two young people, refusing to be bullied into submission, making a last ( and final ) stand against the prejudice of their respective families. It is a about a beautiful, yet heartbreaking, final act of love which defies all the rules, thereby uniting the lovers forever. The last lines 'We hope that you choke' is testament to the pain and anguish felt by them both as they end their young lives and would surely have echoed down through the years as the two families were forced to face the consequences of their mutual hatred - LOVE CONQUERS ALL
• Karl from PhilippinesShane from Collingwood, IKR.
• Hillary from ColoradoTo Toad from UK: Did you mean HBO's Westworld season 1 finale? ---- Also, I recently watched a horror movie called, "After Life" starring Christina Ricci and Liam Neeson, and it featured this song in the ending credits. I thought it was very fitting for the context of the film.
• Toad from UkNot mentioned so far is that a piano instrumental of this song was featured in the Westwood season 1 finale. It was very well suited as the lyrics of the song referencing waking from your sleep, escaping. all hell breaking loose and hoping that your rules and wisdom choke you. All major factors concerning "the Hosts" predicament.
• Gialloporpora from Treviso, ItalyThis song is inspired by a Chopin's prelude (Prelude No 4 E Minor):
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-4Bv5Ng0w
  
• Carrie from Houston, TxWhen R&J came out I was so haunted by the song I became a little obsessed.
• Jon from West Bend, Ia"youthanasia." Oh dear God, what are they teaching the children these days?
  
  Anyway, good song, very haunting vocals (a hallmark of Mr. Yorke, I guess). However, they could've done away with that weird fuzz in the middle and end of the song. For me it really takes away from Thom's singing.
• Dylan from New Britain, CtThis is an awesome song. I love how it was arranged.
• Gabriel from London, EnglandDoes no one esle find the repetition of the haunting line "we hope that you choke, that you choke" poignant? If we follow the theory that this is about Romeo and Juliet, we see the resentment the two lovers feel towards their respective parents and families, since I always thought that this was directed to the 'father' mentioned earlier on; the 'father' represents the entire Montague and Capulet famiies and their pointless and purile fued. Also it reminds me of Mercutio (I think that was the one, not an actual member of either family, but caught up in their 'politics') who gets killed because of the fighting between the families...radiohead seem to update his line 'A plague on both your houses', which becomes the sinister line 'We hope that you choke'. However, the 'we' of the line is telling, and hints more at Romeo and Juliet's resentment, rather than Mercutio's. Even so, the imagery is there, which is everything when it comes to music, especially radiohead's...
• Sean from Beeton, Canadaits about romeo and juliet.. it was written for it, of course people can have their own interpretations of the song.. but the writer did not write it about drugs.. or youthenasia.... you can take it however you want..
• Mongrol from Istanbul, Turkeyit's about youthanasia
• Max from Sydney, Australiaand around the Sing us a song, a song to keep us warm, there's such a chill, such a chill""
  part theres yelling,talking and other stuff, like somones outside somwhere populated
  
• Max from Sydney, AustraliaI think this is about a Man And his lover escaping from home..Like Romeo and Juliet
• Rachel from London, Englandi always thought i was about domestic violence, and a mother taking her child and escaping. however, i have heard people say its about childbirth and escaping from the womb. its an interesting interpetation, but i doubt its got any truth in it.
• Martin from Atlantis, OtherThis song does not provide any alternative ending. It begins with the hope that the couple may still get away ("today we escape, we escape"). Their only chance of getting away is Juliet's father not catching them ("before your father hears us, before all hell breaks loose"). The following verse ("Breathe, keep breathing, don't lose your nerve, breathe, keep breathing
  I can't do this alone") is somewhat more enigmatic but it definately signifies the beginning of the end. They will fall because of their asynchronous deaths and their youth's agonistic haste. Each time they are alone--and alone they cannot do it, vide, be together.
  Thus the chill of death comes, Romeo can hear Juliets mourning song as he plunges into oblivion and vice versa (Sing us a song, a song to keep us warm, there's such a chill, such a chill). This can also be interpreted as the chill of the world engulfing them, while only the song of love can keep them warm.
  And then death; but this is a sentient death. Hovering above their bodies, Romeo can see Juliet's father wailing over the death of his daughter. Romeo is not forgiving; instead he becomes spiteful, gloating on the living loser of this fatal game: the mad laughter of the father is the nonsensical laugh of the idiot, of the madman who has brought about his own world's collapsing by causing the death of his own child. Those inept rules and dead wisdom--let them choke him.
• Michael from Kearny, NjThom Yorke has said that he wrote this song as a sort of alternate ending to the story. He felt that the couple should have just run off together in the end, instead of the senselessness of their deaths.
• Andi from I Don't Like It Here, TxThank You Michelle from Shingle Springs, CA!
• Frost from London, Englandthis is not about violence, or drugs.
  
  'pack and get dressed before your father hears us' is used in romeo's case. he wants to go away with her, but as you lot know, a capulet would rather die than welcome a montaigue.
  
  'before hells breaks loose' can be interpreted as romeo's death. if juliet's father saw or knew of them, romeo would be slaughtered and juliet would die. romeo would go to heaven, and juliet to hell because she commited suicide. they would be separated. and NOW that's hell.
  
  'Breathe, keep breathing, don't lose your nerve.
  Breathe, keep breathing, I can't do this alone.' is quite self-explanatory, me thinks.
  
  'we hope your rules and wisdom choke you.' there is no tangible base for the hate between the two families. shakespeare didn't find it necessary to include one. i don't find it too.
  
  'we hope that you choke, that you choke' choke and die for hating the love that can be born out of hate.
• Shane from Collingwood, Canada It's clearly about a home with domestic violence in it. I mean just listen to it. A kid who gets beat by his father and eventually gets free by commiting suicide.
  "Pack and get dressed, before your father hears us, before, all hell breaks loose"
  
  "We hope your rules and wisdom choke you"
  
• Sam from Coral Springs, FlThe instrumental version of this song was used in a scene in the movie Unfaithful, while diane lane and richard gere are sitting in their living room.
• Isabel from Union City, TnThe song is played on the ending credits of the movie Romeo and Juliet, but Talk show host was in the movie during the begining when Romeo is pining over Rosaline and when he's in mantua
• Jenni from Bilbao, SpainI think it fits the movie (romeo+juliet) perfectly, even though you may think in the movie they didn't make it, some would disagree. I love this song it was the first thing i learnt to play on the guitar when ok computer was released.
• Colin from Silver Spring, MdThis song could be interpretted to be about taking an illegal drug of some sort also (today we escape, we escape... Before all hell breaks loose... Today such a chill, such a chill) people who have takin a hallucinogen of some sort and have heard the song would understand.
• Michelle from Shingle Springs, CaThe moment in the film when Claire Danes (Juliet) holds a Colt 45 to her head was the actual inspiration for "Exit Music." (greenplastic.com)

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