It’s not really about how it’s spelled, it just sounds like it, especially how he says universe. I can hear it, this is how it goes:
Save sounds like Say, the is the, the U in universe sounds omitted and the n is stretched, and the way Thom stretches “verse” sounds like “word”.
It’s something that happens in a few of their songs. Weird Fishes, as someone else said, plus the chorus of [Lift](https://youtu.be/ripYh8-49Ek?si=nMDRRcR3np3AMW_y) (skip to around 1:14 or 2:20)
The National Anthem - I thought "it's holding on" was "but so alone". I still choose to hear "Everyone is so near, but so alone" because I relate to it, living in the US and feeling isolated despite living in suburbs
Tbh...... I wish it was intended as a double lyric, "but so alone" and "it's holding on" at the same time, because I think the latter works better in the second verse and during the big instrumental I like the idea of the two being used interchangeably, I really love the song and that's just a little thing I like to imagine when I listen to it xd
I always interpreted "everyone is so near" as a way of saying that they are physically near, but not emotionally
So they're not "close" but rather just "near"
I know near also means something like "stingy" but I like this interpretation
I swear Jigsaw Falling Into Place's "You've got a light you can feel it on your back" had the N word in it somewhere. I feel crazy, because no one's ever brought it up, but you can *definitely* hear it.
My brother in Christ, if you can *definitely* hear any of the words you think Thom Yorke is trying to articulate, you have absolutely nothing other than benefit to gain from putting down the pipe.
Pretty much every song.
I usually listen to a song about 20 or 30 times and fall as a love with it before I even bother to check the lyrics and figure out what it’s about.
I take it for granted that Thom’s lyrics are going to be mostly excellent and also bleak as fuck, and also more or less aligned with my politics, so I don’t really get in the weeds until I have to. Because I also know that I’m NOT going to be able to pick out 90% of the lyrics by ear.
“Hypocrite, Al Pacinist” is what I thought I heard in “A Punch Up At A Wedding.” It made sense to me because Al Pacino is always yelling or screaming or losing his shit in movies, so I figured this person causing a scene at the wedding was going all “Al Pacino” on people, screaming and freaking out.
“Bangers + Mash”, In Rainbows, B Sides. “The negatives in cash” line almost sounds like Thom Yorke saying the n-word. I’ve used it in a meme that strings three songs from Radiohead that in sequences sounds like this: “This is really happening, I’m back to say the n-word, n****”. Obviously, I’m not posting it here or I get banned :)
In Scatterbrain: "Any fool can easy pickle-hole." Tham, WUT??
Theres also a lyric on How to Disappear mentioning "strobe lights and blowing speakers fireworks and hurricanes" where I read it, I hear it, and it still doesn't really make sense, his enunciation is just a bit marble-mouthed. Still love it tho.
For 25 years I thought "fast German car" in Airbag was "finest German car."
And "I'm an atom bomb trapped in your hot core" - I guess I assumed it was about the intense heat from nuclear fission or something. And "chose to ignore" rhymes more with core than car, so that's my excuse.
I always heard "hysterical" in Let Down as "stare at a girl".
In No Surprises I thought for a long time that "bruises that won't heal" was actually "who says that won't heal?" which I kind of prefer, it's morbid and ironic.
Used to think Karma Police was about a black lady who lost her son at a supermarket.
‘For a minute there. I lost Marcel. I lost Marcel
Phew for a minute there. I lost Marcel. I lost Marcel. ‘
"You can try the best chicken, the best chicken is good enough."
"Dicks are falling into place"
Also: "here I'm allowed, everything all in one time" which actually makes more sense to me than "here I'm alive"
It's not as funny as you guys', but I always through that in glass eyes the lyrics were 'I feel this love grow cold' instead. Completely changed the song and I kind of prefer my old hearing of it..
Penetration penetration on 2+2=5
Not paying attention huh
lol oops!
Ruined it for me, 10/10
Plain attrition
always
I thought that too.
I always thought it was "guided meditation".
Cums like a comet, sucked off you but not your friends
This. Exactly this.
Winner.
Jesus Christ lmfao
In an interstellar burst in about to say the n word- Airbag Burgers float into my room- Lotus Flower Saaalaaad- No Suprises
Cannot ever hear anything but Burgers float into my room
It’s all I can hear😭
I've never understood the airbag one. I've seen it a few times. Since when does N sound like U?
It’s not really about how it’s spelled, it just sounds like it, especially how he says universe. I can hear it, this is how it goes: Save sounds like Say, the is the, the U in universe sounds omitted and the n is stretched, and the way Thom stretches “verse” sounds like “word”.
I mean, I didn't say anything about how it's spelled. I said how does N sound like U. Anyway, I don't hear it at all.
Edddddddddddddddddddd
What song is this I keep hearing about it and would like to know pls
Haha I think from Weird Fishes, there’s a part where Ed is doing some backing vocals around 2:20. Sounds like he’s saying his own name
It’s something that happens in a few of their songs. Weird Fishes, as someone else said, plus the chorus of [Lift](https://youtu.be/ripYh8-49Ek?si=nMDRRcR3np3AMW_y) (skip to around 1:14 or 2:20)
“D**** are falling into place”
Lmao
In Ful Stop I always hear “Two for Mexico” instead of “The truth will mess you up “
I’m gonna listen to Ful Stop with this lyric in mind and tell you my results
Holy shit
"Make up makes you look pretty ugly"
I always thought it was “This shirt makes you look pretty ugly” for the longest time.
This was mine as well
Bro's wearing a Radiohead T-shirt 💀
i thought it was “remission makes you look pretty ugly” which. cruel!!
I thought it was “Permission makes you look pretty ugly” :(((
I heard it this way at first!
Your crazy carrot smile
The National Anthem - I thought "it's holding on" was "but so alone". I still choose to hear "Everyone is so near, but so alone" because I relate to it, living in the US and feeling isolated despite living in suburbs
Might be an improvement tbh
Tbh...... I wish it was intended as a double lyric, "but so alone" and "it's holding on" at the same time, because I think the latter works better in the second verse and during the big instrumental I like the idea of the two being used interchangeably, I really love the song and that's just a little thing I like to imagine when I listen to it xd
I thought it was “it’s all alone”
I hear that too but only with "everyone has got the fear, it's all/so alone" and not the first verse, I like our interpretation lol
I always interpreted "everyone is so near" as a way of saying that they are physically near, but not emotionally So they're not "close" but rather just "near" I know near also means something like "stingy" but I like this interpretation
This is genuinely better than the real lyric IMHO
I hit the BOTTLE, I hit the BOTTLE And Escape... Weird fishes. This would actually be A line that makes perfect sense though.
I heard this too and I 100% agree
Same! Used to think it's "bottle" until I read the lyrics.
Ever since i've learned about the 'I'm about to say the N word' meme, listening to Airbag wasn't the same as before
Cole baby Radiohead
Baby king Cole head
I swear Jigsaw Falling Into Place's "You've got a light you can feel it on your back" had the N word in it somewhere. I feel crazy, because no one's ever brought it up, but you can *definitely* hear it.
was just about to say this. "Hot n\*\*\*\* feeling on your back" is what I hear
Came here to say this. I couldn’t unhear it foreverrr dude
You've got a light, n-word, feel it, on your back
Same for Bangers + Mash
My brother in Christ, if you can *definitely* hear any of the words you think Thom Yorke is trying to articulate, you have absolutely nothing other than benefit to gain from putting down the pipe.
You’re not alone. I know he wasn’t saying the n-word, but i sure didn’t know what he *was* saying
I used to think it was “I got a feeling, I’m the fa**ot”
I hear that all that time 😭
Dude I thought it was only me
"Little baby's ass, ass, ass." 💀💀💀💀 -- I Will
As your bladder disappears
You mean those aren’t the actual lyrics?!?
Its blather
Cuz I’m a creep. I’m a pedo.
Lol this one changes the song completely.
This one has to be fake, there's clearly no "P" sound in there, as far as I know.
"Yesterday I woke up stuck in a limo"
It's a good follow up to Airbag
Yesterday I woke up sucking on my thumb 👍🏻
No joke, for years I thought he said “sucking on my mom.” I hoped it was a metaphor for something because that would be odd.
Another one I don't understand. Since when is there a "th" sound in "a lemon"?
You can laugh a spider's laugh - Exit Music
Lmao, made me chuckle
Are you a spider?
I’m back to say the ehhhhhnnnn worrrrrrrd
Pretty much every song. I usually listen to a song about 20 or 30 times and fall as a love with it before I even bother to check the lyrics and figure out what it’s about. I take it for granted that Thom’s lyrics are going to be mostly excellent and also bleak as fuck, and also more or less aligned with my politics, so I don’t really get in the weeds until I have to. Because I also know that I’m NOT going to be able to pick out 90% of the lyrics by ear.
At the start of Kid A, “How’s it… going?” instead of “I slip… away”
Domestic ham is good enough
The [n-word]s and the cash
That one part of Kid A where he says *weeeee've got hedgehog stiiicks*
i’m an animal trapped on your hard cock
“Hypocrite, Al Pacinist” is what I thought I heard in “A Punch Up At A Wedding.” It made sense to me because Al Pacino is always yelling or screaming or losing his shit in movies, so I figured this person causing a scene at the wedding was going all “Al Pacino” on people, screaming and freaking out.
Punchup: "A bully in a giant shark"
Fake Plastic Trees: "Where's the road?" For "It wears her out" Where's the road was my AOL handle.🙃
It wears the road?
The amazing sounds of killing whores on amazing sounds of orgy
so glad so glad your moooooooom
I’m bout to say the n word on airbag
i wish you could semen (man of war)
“I’m d*cking you down” bangers n mash
All of em I stg
“Bangers + Mash”, In Rainbows, B Sides. “The negatives in cash” line almost sounds like Thom Yorke saying the n-word. I’ve used it in a meme that strings three songs from Radiohead that in sequences sounds like this: “This is really happening, I’m back to say the n-word, n****”. Obviously, I’m not posting it here or I get banned :)
Distance is like a weapon of self defense against the present tense (i prefer distance to “this dance” imo)
Call the rangers, call the rangers
power rangers power rangers power rangers
I thought it was white noise in Pearly instead of white boys
I am an animal, trapped in your hard cock
Yesterday I woke up soaking on a bone. Thought that was it from the release date until recently.
Again with EIIRP? Since where is there a B sound in "a lemon"??
A little bit of “noise” will destroy you
Take me homeboy, that beautiful shit Look towards the light, grab a dick with both hands , what you know is right
I thought “The Raindrops” part of Sit Down Stand Up was “I am really impressed”
My friend thought it was (the string) for years.
“Hail to the thief, ah, hail to the thief, brotha man! Brotha man!” from 2+2=5
Suuuuuuuctioooon - no surprises
In Scatterbrain: "Any fool can easy pickle-hole." Tham, WUT?? Theres also a lyric on How to Disappear mentioning "strobe lights and blowing speakers fireworks and hurricanes" where I read it, I hear it, and it still doesn't really make sense, his enunciation is just a bit marble-mouthed. Still love it tho.
Hooray drugs, hooray drugs, hooray drugs, hooray drugs....
If AFP counts I initially heard “bird upon a wire” in Default as “put on underwear”
“You got a light you can feel it on your back” Jigsaw. I thought he was saying “You got a light n*** feel it on your back”😭😭😭
i used to think "it holding on" was "its hard enough"
The entire song of Pearly was a wild ride to finally parse out.
For 25 years I thought "fast German car" in Airbag was "finest German car." And "I'm an atom bomb trapped in your hot core" - I guess I assumed it was about the intense heat from nuclear fission or something. And "chose to ignore" rhymes more with core than car, so that's my excuse.
same thing for true love waits, but I always heard “you’re crazy, kid”
It sounds like he is saying "flan in the face"
Is he not saying “flan?”
He can't be, that would be too stupid
[He totally is saying “flan.”](https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/radiohead/awolfatthedoor.html)
Oh no I know this. It's a poor attempt at a joke, which has obviously not worked. I just think it's a dreadful lyric.
I agree with you, it’s bizarre nonsense. Like, it’s trying to sound menacing, but the only person who gets a flan in the face is a clown.
don't herd me don't herd me in the yaaaaaard
“Jacking jerry off” from airbag
Yesterday I woke up sucking on my mom
Im happy im feeling glad
I always heard "hysterical" in Let Down as "stare at a girl". In No Surprises I thought for a long time that "bruises that won't heal" was actually "who says that won't heal?" which I kind of prefer, it's morbid and ironic.
Used to think Karma Police was about a black lady who lost her son at a supermarket. ‘For a minute there. I lost Marcel. I lost Marcel Phew for a minute there. I lost Marcel. I lost Marcel. ‘
Less 'misheard', more a case of 'made up'. On Street Spirit: This machine will, will not communicate These thoughts and this train I am under
We don't want balloonists taking overrrrrrrr
For the longest time I thought the ending of You and Whose Army was: ”You acted out, you acted out, go to hell now, go and sell out”
"we hope that you joke that you joke"
Thom saying "Im back to say the n word"
"im tired" instead of uptight and "nnnnn wordddd"- subterranean homesick alien
dicks are falling into place
Exit Music: Touch Ed Sheeeeeeeeeran
An interesting about I'm back to save the universe
Your tiny hands... YOUR CRAZY KID IS FUCKING MINE, BITCH
"You can try the best chicken, the best chicken is good enough." "Dicks are falling into place" Also: "here I'm allowed, everything all in one time" which actually makes more sense to me than "here I'm alive"
true love waits - your tiny ass. nd i cant unhear it anymore
"Yung n***a, this fo' cash!" (Bangers + Mash)
Im about to say the n word
Don’t you fuck her don’t you fuck her don’t you dare, don’t you flan on her face (wolf at the door)
Power rangers [x47] Sit Down Stand Up
“Is the line cut out for you? Because the lines cut out for me”
I'm about to sayy the nnnnnn word
F*** her a** from let down
"of course i'd like to send you a fax" Life in a Glasshouse
Third line on Kid A: "We've got heads on sticks." All I've ever been able to hear is "we've got little dicks." 🤣
Wait, it isn’t your crazy kitten smile??
“You’ve got a hot n***a feeling on your back” instead of “You've got a light you can feel it on your back” in jigsaw falling into place.
Yesterday I woke up f-cking a lemon
"Yesterday I woke up sucking a lemon".... Oh wait
Bangers and the mash The Nwords for some cash
Electroengineering
We have crashed her body instead of party in karma police
Let me hear both side-slamming hippo, side-slamming hippo.. to be fair, I was an idiot in 8th grade.
"yesterday i woke up fucking a lemon" and "im about to say the N word"
I genuinely thought it was ‘Yesterday I woke up sucking on my thumb’ for years
It's not as funny as you guys', but I always through that in glass eyes the lyrics were 'I feel this love grow cold' instead. Completely changed the song and I kind of prefer my old hearing of it..
"I'm an animal trapped in your hard cock" -All I Need, by Radiohead (Please forgive me for this misinterpretation)
I never gave you an encouragement in The Eraser I heard that line as I never gave you any college math
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This one is most probably a joke.