Comments: 19

• Laurence from Bishop Auckland, United KingdomI think this song is about the inevitability that life is cruel, whether you realise it or not. The last line, in my opinion, is not a ray of hope but it is something all living things do to escape the inevitable. There is no angst in this song, nor depression, just acceptance of defeat and fear.
  
  BTW im actually a pretty upbeat person. I dont think think this song is anything to get depressed about. It's an affirmation that we are all in the same boat together floating toward the same place.
• Maurice from Amsterdam, NetherlandsBeautifull when the drums come in..
• Brigette from Melbourne, Australiathis song makes me feel utter sadness...i dont know how to explain
  its eerie but mellow at the same time but whenever i listen to it..it feels like theres a cool body of water in my lower gut. i usually feel like that whenever im in deep.
• Evan from Foley, MnI really wonder about the power of songs. Certianly this one is not one to be taken lightly. A group of friends and I once sang this in a group of people and many started weeping. I don't know anything of auras or anything else spiritual, but it was definitely a chilling moment.
• Cecilia from Portland, OrBeautiful and exquisitely sad. Definitely a good listen-to if you're in the mood for a good cry...but also mellow, so at least you won't find yourself throwing things. One of my all time favorites.
• James from Victoria, Australiathe lyrics are great, especially the line,
  Cracked eggs, dead birds Scream as they fight for life I can feel death, can see its beady . angst ridden, great song too. much better than any pop music made now. for a great perfomrace of this look up the performace that thom and jonny did for mtv.
• Victor from Howell, NjI think that this song has one of the most crushing melodies of any modern song...
  
  There are times I can't handle this song, but I have to anyway.
• Carlos A. from Santa Cruz, Cathis was the song the definitively made me fall in love with radiohead. i consider myself a pretty optimistic person, but often times feel sub-consciously magnetized towards the sad and melancholic. it was after i read thom?s take on this song (from this website) that i realized how very, very hopeless he feels towards this song. and upon reading the words again, i can?t helo but feel a sort of guilt for not recognizing the apocalyptic theme. but my favorite line in an english written song is taken from this song. i suppose that it?s because of it?s ?no way out? nature that one would have to resort to such hope. the line is the last in the song and if everyone took that advice, the world would be a better place.
  ?immerse your soul in love.?
• Nate from Pittsburgh, PaRows of Houses all bearing down on me. One of the best songs ever.
• Robb from London, EnglandAwesome melody so simple yet so gripping. The lyrics especially live haunt you forever and make goosebumps appear constantly.
• Max from Sydney, Australiaone of my favourite radiohead songsvideos. This song is definitly one of their darker song with some strange lytics but a fantasic song.
• Rashed from Camden, NjMost enchanting song ever. Beautiful melody, perfect vocals, awesome theme.
• Shobu from Trenton, NjHaving read the first comment on this page (beginning "Street Spirit' is our purest song, but I didn't write it.... It wrote itself. We were just its messengers... Its biological catylysts. It's core is a complete mystery to me.....") I am now convinced that Thom Yorke is the single most pretentious human being ever to have existed.
• Christine from SunderlandI love this song and the video is one of their best. i like the video for no surprises better though it makes my lungs hurt just watching him.
• Kathy from N-u-l, EnglandI didn't particularly like this song, but The Darkness did a cover of it, which is alot more upbeat and tis uber cool. m/
• Timothy from Metropolis, IlWhen i first heard this song, i put it on repeat and just lied on my floor for 3 hours.(no lie) This song is great and truly powerful.
• Darksoul from Toronto, CanadaApparently this song was based on the novel "The Famished Road" by Ben Okri which Thom love.
• Jade from London, EnglandNice quote by Thom Yorke, thank's for writing that Dora! I love this song & only because my Dad love's it. I don't understand why at the moment we are the only two people who have commented on it! LOL!
• Dora from Sofia, BulgariaThom Yorke:
  
  "'Street Spirit' is our purest song, but I didn't write it.... It wrote itself.
  We were just its messengers... Its biological catylysts. It's core is a complete
  mystery to me... and (pause) you know, I wouldn't ever try to write something that hopeless... All of our saddest songs have somewhere in them at least a glimmer of resolve... 'Street Spirit' has no resolve... It is the dark tunnel
  without the light at the end. It represents all tragic emotion that is so
  hurtful that the sound of that melody is its only definition. We all have a way
  of dealing with that song... It's called detachment... Especially me.. I detach
  my emotional radar from that song, or I couldn't play it... I'd crack. I'd break
  down on stage.. that's why its lyrics are just a bunch of mini-stories or visual
  images as opposed to a cohesive explanation of its meaning... I used images set
  to the music that I thought would convey the emotional entirety of the lyric and
  music working together... That's what's meant by 'all these things are one to
  swallow whole'.. I meant the emotional entirety, because I didn't have it in me
  to articulate the emotion... (pause) I'd crack.... Our fans are braver than I to
  let that song penetrate them, or maybe they don't realize what they're listening
  to.. They don't realize that 'Street Spirit' is about staring the f--king devil
  right in the eyes... and knowing, no matter what the hell you do, he'll get the
  last laugh...and it's real...and true. The devil really will get the last laugh
  in all cases without exception, and if I let myself think about that to long,
  I'd crack. I can't believe we have fans that can deal emotionally with that
  song... That's why I'm convinced that they don't know what it's about. It's why
  we play it towards the end of our sets. It drains me, and it shakes me, and
  hurts like hell everytime I play it, looking out at thousands of people cheering
  and smiling, oblivious to the tragedy of it's meaning, like when you're going to
  have your dog put down and it's wagging it's tail on the way there. That's what
  they all look like, and it breaks my heart.
  
  I wish that song hadn't picked us as its catalysts, and so I don't claim it. It
  asks too much. (very long pause). I didn't write that song."

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