| Lyrics
Red wine and sleeping pills Help me get back to your arms Cheap sex and sad films Help me get back where I belong I think you're crazy, maybe I think you're crazy, maybe Stop sending letters Letters always get burned It's not like the movies They fed us on little white lies I think you're crazy, maybe I think you're crazy, maybe I will see you in the next life Original last verse not included on Kid A: Beautiful angel Pulled apart at birth Limbless and helpless I can't even recognize you I think you're crazy, maybe (x6) I will see you in the next life | Interpretation
Red wine, sleeping pills, cheap sex and sad films. These are representing the things that people do to keep themeselves happy, to keep them sedate, to remove the pain. They put people where they think they belong. "I think your crazy, mabey"... one of the most intersting lines of the whole song, because it is refering to "you". It therefore holds many possible meanings, depending on who the reader interprets it. One is that he thinks you, the person who lives this life, is just crazy. I am not sure about that is ment by "Stop sending letters, letters always get burnt". It might be a reference to dreams, don't talk about your dreams with somone, but im probobly wrong becaue it doesn't fit with the rest of the song. "They fed us on little white lies". Most meaningful line of the whole song and probobly album. It refers to the line "I slipped on a little white lie" in the albums title track "Kid A". By slipping on white lies, we bought the lies that society, that our parents, that our teachers told us. They were not ment to be harmful, they just are things that they were taught. This does NOT mean though, that they arnt extreamly harmful. "I will see you in the next life". I do not think that this is refering to death, but a rebirth of spirit.. the singer is saying he will see you in his next life, after he reforms himself. I am not sure why the last verse was not included on the album version, but I suspect it had to do with the fact it makes the song much easier to understand. As stupid as that sounds, it makes sence when you listen to the whole album, because every song is very hard to understand and is very vauge in its terms and speach. The last verse talks about how we start beautiful, but right at birth we are torn apart, helpless to stop the maneing. |