15 Step by Radiohead

This is the first song of the album In Rainbows.

The song originated on May 6, 2006 in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood performed this song at the 2009 Grammys, for their first Grammy performance ever.

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15 Step
by Radiohead

How come I end up where I started
How come I end up where I belong
Won't take my eyes off the ball again
You reel me out then you cut the string

How come I end up where I started
How come I end up where I belong
Won't take my eyes off the ball again
You reel me out then you cut the string

You used to be alright
What happened?
Did the cat get your tongue
Did your string come undone
One by one
One by one
It comes to us all
It's as soft as your pillow

You used to be alright
What happened?
Etcetera etcetera
Facts for whatever
Fifteen steps
Then a shear drop

How come I end up where I started
How come I end up where I belong
Won't take my eyes off the ball again
You reel me out then you cut the string

Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
Written by: COLIN CHARLES GREENWOOD, EDWARD JOHN O'BRIEN, JONATHAN RICHARD GUY GREENWOOD, PHILIP JAMES SELWAY, THOMAS EDWARD YORKE

Lyrics Licensed & Provided by LyricFind

To comment on specific lyrics, highlight them

Comments from YouTube:

Kakyoin Milf Hunter

3y↑2.5K

Radiohead is my favorite anime

Vanish_-bless

Who's gonna tell him

Joseph Buccelli

18w

2 years too late, but there should be a stand called [ RadioHead ]

Reigen Lucilfer

20w↑1

Jorke Joestar

Peter Todary

36w

Your my favorite jobro

Suren Gogoi

39w

Wryyyyyyyy

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Neko Perdomo

5y↑1K

I really like this song. I really will never understand this video.

Space Dootboy

5w↑1

That's usually how things go regarding Radiohead videos.

Journey On Rails

38w↑2

I would like but it is at 666 likes so...

adrian kozubal

48w↑3

@SifuSifu so he was isekai'ed by truck kun after all. LoL

adrian kozubal

48w↑3

thats the thing about this anime

Clio Duczyk

1y↑1

@SifuSifu he just lives in a tredmile and go over and over the old same shit again,life expierience, just read the lyrics and absorve them,translate them,

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Wilson Lau

5y↑845

I have heard this song for more than hundred times but this is the first time I see this video, lol.

Agustín Ortega

@Gabriel Ortega 😂 where are u from?

Gabriel Ortega

@Agustín Ortega Hey cousin (?

Gabriel Ortega

Same to me and sincerely didn't like me

Ex Pat Canadian Apple Picker

19w

Agustín Ortega I did! ✌🏽💕

Ex Pat Canadian Apple Picker

19w

I am right there with you! And it’s 100% not what I was expecting.

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Duct Tape

4y↑1.2K

None of those bad things would have happened if he had toast in his mouth as per Japanese law.

Chad

chikoku chikoku

Kira Yoshikage

15w↑2

Is that an Evangelion reference?

Regimes oftruth

34w

@Kaiser Wilhelm II I think you'll find toast was invented by an endless screaming internal gushing until the bread popped. Don't forget it.

Kaiser Wilhelm II

39w↑2

@Jayrays, and English law is sipping tea and being salty that your empire collapsed in less than a lifetime.

BigMidget

3y↑1

장나연 what

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Dom

4y↑610

I didn't know Thom was a weeb

internet guy

I’m not surprised if he is lol

Dom

@Juan Dom lmao dw my man, I watch those shows. Monster and Cowboy Bebop are 2 of my favorite shows ever not just anime

Juan Dom

Not all animes are childish and silly. Watch Cow boy Bebop, Monster ..... the anime format is just a medium. You'll be amazed how some of those anime are incredebly well written.

noise pollution

every cultured person is a weeb

Tapejack -__-

12w

Biponacci r/hsooohw

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TjsWorld2011

4y↑430

This is the reason why we should have more animated music videos.

Tomas Aguilar

You should see "At the door" video by The Strokes. It's a really good video

O h

KidAKskrrtX love him or hate him, the man’s spitting straight facts. Yeah ngl gorillaz kind of lost their touch after they started making everything about advertisements

Metal is ebin :3

20w

@KidAKskrrtX the Now Now was my album of the decade

Yoda Gang

2y↑2

KID-AK
Some of the songs are good but the fanbase is fucking shit

KidAKskrrtX

2y↑3

Gorillaz is pretty shit now.

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MadameSomnambule

4y↑508

The boy's design reminds me of both Doraemon and Osomatsu-kun

SilverSkull23

38w↑1

That kid is nobita - glasses

culo qletto

2y↑3

MadameSomnambule yup

Javiera Aranguiz

3y↑12

YES its like a combination of both

Andrew

4y↑27

I thought the same thing yeah, this art-style is very reminiscent of that style, whether intentional or not.

Fany

3y↑281

How come I end up where I started?
How come I end up where I went wrong?
Won't take my eyes off the ball again
You reel me out then you cut the string

How come I end up where I started?
How come I end up where I went wrong?
I won't take my eyes off the ball again
First you reel me out and then you cut the string

You used to be alright
What happened?
Did the cat get your tongue?
Did your string come undone?

One by one
One by one
It comes to us all
It's as soft as your pillow

You used to be alright
What happened
Et cetera, et cetera
Fads for whatever
Fifteen steps
Then a sheer drop

How come I end up where I started?
How can I end up where I went wrong?
Won't take my eyes off the ball again
You reel me out and you cut the string

TheEpicEpedemic

18w↑2

Thanks lyrics guy

Damani Skateboarding

3y↑3

Fany thx u

your father

44w↑23

3:47 delet this

Tristan Tejero

4y↑166

I thought the video was about some teenage kid getting fit to impress someone.

He wanted to be fit, thinking it might impress the girl he wants. He was fat, so he jogged and he got fit. But there's always the temptation of delicious food. He forced himself not to eat a lot, (shit, he probably starved himself) so he went crazy and started seeing some weird shit. But he couldn't take it anymore, and came back where he started and he got fat again. When he got fat, the bitch-- I mean the girl, who is the giant robot with pink hair, just straight up rejected him or as the video is showing "blasted him away by the painful words of rejection" and he ended up beating himself up because of it.

But the end though, I didn't get the end... What did the girl say? "Abu"? The monkey from alladin? And the gun at the end, did he actually kill himself? And the new grown plant was probably him seeing hope but god was just fucking him with that so god stomped the plant and ended his life.

Anyway, the moral lesson to this shit is probably, "It's not about the body, it's about your fucking so health, so try not to starve yourself just so you can impress some asshole."

Mr. Gilbert

17w

NaturalBornKilla007 getting fitter makes you happier

cocaSun

NaturalBornKilla007

yeah
but that doesn't mean being fat is okay

cocaSun

starving yourself doesn't help you lose weight

Marco Jiménez

It's not about lessons, its about ineludible reality and quotidian suffer

NaturalBornKilla007

3y↑31

So... he got fitter, but not happier (I always wanted to say that)

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Luis Munoz

3y↑66

Twilight brought me here and I love it!

that’s it chief

5w↑1

TheStepmonkey how

TheStepmonkey

6w↑1

@discordant dancers LOL Radiohead sucks now...

discordant dancers

39w↑1

@Kaiser Wilhelm II yes, i am fine, i am just making sure that that person didn't forget about them 7 days after that post was made because that person would be fucking up.

Kaiser Wilhelm II

39w↑5

@discordant dancers, are you... Ok?

discordant dancers

40w↑5

you are lucky because radiohead is the best band ever they have 30 tracks better than this i hope you have been listening to them for the last 2 eyars

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Tanner Palethorpe

3y↑106

I love 5/4

John J. Apanovitch

@Mario I. Carrillo Nothing is worse than 142/8. Yes, that's a real time signature. :)

ale14zoppi

@Isaac skilling it's the same thing, just on a different scale

Isaac skilling

14w

I thought it would have been 5/8?

SomeKidNamedAfan

27w↑10

SHE TURNED MY DAD OOOOOOOOOOOON

Zynthax

42w

my idiotic ass thought it was 5/6 for some odd reason

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banjonator1

4y↑50

At 1:45 you can see the picture of the Trifid Nebula used for the cover of King Crimson's 1971 album Islands.

Wendigo Van der Blitz

Good one, very good one. You deserve a raise as a commenter.

Anus

11w

@Danny Robson Oh yeah

Danny Robson

28w↑2

Good spotting!
It's the red constellation on the left

ar9av

50w

Nope.

Nova The Etheral

4y↑172

"15 Step" is a very warm and upbeat song about a failed love that uses metaphors connected to hanging, with instances such as the line revolving around the Title Drop ("15 steps, then a sheer drop")
-Radiohead tvtropes page

Scumbag Eosapien

29w↑3

Marco Parada Imagine watching an AMV for a band you dislike and then replying not once but twice to a comment

Jacob Mo-Middilly-Morin

33w↑2

Marco Parada Yo heh, fuck this guy

rilem

48w↑21

@Marco Parada you seem like a very likable person

Marco Parada

50w↑1

@MoonCake , it's because this song and most of Radiohead is grabage.

Marco Parada

50w↑1

Shrooms, and unemployment leads to the discoveries of someone else's mindset.

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Myotic Tesseract

4y↑152

While Radiohead is more of a quirky band and this video tends more toward wacky, I still think it was a great animation that went with the song pretty well :)

GoldChillPill

@Marco Parada I'd like to see your take on how Radiohead "sucks".

Marco Parada

50w

@Dave Wood , you can leave your shell. It's okay to face reality. Radiohead sucks, and it's okay.

Monst

1y↑3

Radiohead kinda quirky doe 😎

Dave Wood

2y↑2

In what sense do you see radio head as quirky, there the most innovative band on the planet and quirky is a bad term of expression.

K-leb

2y↑17

I never thought I'd see someone use "quirky" and "wacky" with clear distinctions between the words.

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El Nato

4y↑204

I love the synchronization of this wonderful animation with the song.
somelike Paranoid Android song with that other animation...

Radiohead + random Animations= exciting addiction.

VinchVolt

12w↑1

Well Paranoid Android's music video was technically an episode of a Swedish TV show. This meanwhile appears to be unconnected to any preexisting media other than the music.

culo qletto

El Nato 👌

Let me Eat cake

4y↑160

I don't get it.....
Did he or didn't he find the Pokemon?

Iam Notarobot

Let me Eat cake
Lol

firstname iskowitz

4y↑155

I came here thinking that this was some sort of Osomatsu-kun tribute. I was wrong. I was very, very, wrong.

acidicsalt

Omg same xD

firstname iskowitz

4y↑5

+bubblegum03 The only ties I can see are the main character's appearance and that one bit at 2:38

bubblegum03

4y↑6

It kind of is, in a way.

Ugly Duckling

2y↑29

Sounds like the song played at the end of the first twilight movie

Justin Richard

1y↑3

it does

caribbeanspice

2y↑8

it is

Waved

41w↑21

3:31 mans shirt says Thom Yorke

KingtheKing

13w↑4

This video is the most confusing thing to me. I watched it when I was fairly young, and for the longest time, I could never find it and thought it was a fever dream. I asked my parents about an animated band, and somehow got hooked on Gorillaz, and now years later, after asking my dad about some bizarre song with a weird animation, he tells me the name, and now here I am.

razzberrry

7y↑9

This video is like when you're dreaming and trying to run away from something but you're running in slow motion.

Cottage Milk

16w↑7

3:49 vibe check

Cradboradfy

6y↑18

Im looking for similar sounding songs of Radiohead (or other bands) like this particular song. I've had a look at Radiohead's collection of music and each songs sounds radically different than the last in my opinion which is of course great as a band but less great when you're in the mood for a similar sound.

don aman

Idioteque from their album Kid A kinda sounds similar to this song

corn cob boy

1y↑1

The notwist

Michael Hird

1y↑1

Maybe teleman, alt-j, anything off of the album "time out" by the dave brubeck quartet, or hiatus kaiyote

Quero Viver

2y↑2

Cradboradfy i have some that sound kind of like this or you'd maybe like.
Mother mother
amanda palmer
florence and the machine

Symmetric Asymmetric

4y↑40

This video is even more surrealist than Paprika.

Mad Mark C

3y↑4

Raul M.M.U. Yes!!! this video reminded me alot of Paprika.

Angel Martinez

22w↑10

Radiohead has some great music videos that capture the feeling of the song perfectly like Daydreaming, Street Spirit and No Surprises

They also have videos like this

asthma

23w↑7

i just realised this song is in twilight lmao

William MacMillan

4y↑48

15 step--15 trips more like

chloe cheryl

13w↑3

When there was faces on the train I thought I was hallucinating

LilyCelebi

2y↑11

I hate to say it, but think of the main character as Osomatsu and this whole video changes

Slimy Boy

4w↑1

Therapist: Face Train isn’t real it can’t hurt you

Face Train: 0:33

lizonya

2y↑8

what episode of osomatsu is this

Wendigo Van der Blitz

It's hilarious how most people in this comment section are anime fans.

Cheeki Breeki

47w↑7

12 years ago, Radiohead predicted modern indie-pop music. This was the result

SMuJ17

7y↑4

The entire thing reminds me of nightmares. Starts normalish with a few things out of place and then ends with you feeling completely powerless, even about to die. Then it flashes and you wake up.

ibrahim öztürk

2y↑6

0:33 watch the video on 0,25x speed. What is the meaning of this?

Alan Garcia Cardenas

33w

Holy shit...
That was creepy as hell. 😐

troublesgrippin

51w↑5

music videos made for songs don't usually reflect the same meaning, but if you correlate the lyrics with the visuals, "how come I end up where I started, how come I end up where I belong" considering the words "started" and "belong" are synced with the appearance of skulls with eyes, they may mean death, since that's where we come from and where we end up, where we belong. failure, judgement from others. I think the whole video is about being overwhelmed with growing up and failing to fit in, and those lines with the video may mean that even though time passed and he got older he is still in the same spot he was when he was a kid, running away from something, rushing, being judged and blamed, not understanding what is going on.
or in case it is not as closely tied to the lyrics, just an omen of future failure

kingdrybones

2y↑2

I remember being in like.. 1st grade listening to this, and I never understood what he was saying. This took months for me to find. It's as good as I remember. <3

Daniel Thompson

21w↑2

"eccentera",dan' (What fun!)
"everyone that is here now, is a necessity."
–Daniel–

acidicsalt

4y↑9

omg the boy reminds me of Doraemon and Osomatsu-San ^^

Wobbles and Bean

9w↑1

It's been so long, but I'm still kinda upset this won the contest when it wasn't even animated for this song.

SW Dragon #47

2y↑25

Anyone here from Twilight?

Maya B.

Yep

FreakRuff

@Layavish u kidding right?

Layavish

Nombre it’s only the best moive like ever

Layavish

Nombre ur kidding right cuz

Nombre

What is Twilight?

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helloimRENO

6y↑6

jesus christ this video is haunting

DAEJIN LEE

4y↑6

wtf...? but I love the song

Stoney Curtis

2y↑2

This is the modern version of breaking Up Is Hard To Do~!

adrian kozubal

1y↑3

my favorite part in this whole song is from 2:20 to the end in my opinion is the best part of the song

C4K3

33w

Same, I love the cool sound, it goes well with the broken down city

Noah carter

4y↑28

Doreamon?

David Moreno

Xaliber No, you mean Nobisuke

XLBR

WIN WIN: What the hell is doreamon, there is no doreamon in Japanese. You mean dorayaki.

XLBR

Luis Rene: Wrong, Doraemon is by the duo known with the pseudonym as Fujiko Fujio (Fujimoto Hiroshi and Abiko Motoo). Osomatsu is by one person called Akatsuka Fujio. Akatsuka's other work is Bakabon, not Doraemon.

BOSE坊主

3y↑5

I'm sorry..I'm Japanese people but..doreamon is
a rice casserole in Japanese. We call it DORAEMON

Luis René Venegas Medina

4y↑7

OSOMATSU! (same author)

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BOSE坊主

3y↑3

I'm Japanese people.It is not Japanese style but Radiohead's style.

Daniel Thompson

21w↑1

"pseudonymian"
"a pink flop" –missing a flip–
,dan'

BuckyBear

3y↑4

reminds me of osomatsu-san

Frosty

6y↑3

OK, who the hell is Koto Totori?

Just Gio

2y↑2

I'll always treasure the time we had Margaret, may you rest in peace

Matt Smillie

2y↑1

2:21 "I used to be a wimp, until I got anchor arms"

Sonia Khanam

3y↑16

Who came here because of twilight first movies ending song

Quenteq Mampff

I'm here because it's Radiohead

FreakRuff

1y↑1

Good song but shit fucking movie

Vguy111

7y↑1

eye balls on train gave me a bad trip :(

Don't mind this

3y↑7

I need help. Does anyone remember what the radiohead song was called that was played with an animated music video that was about a soldier who was being hunted down by a magician or something. The video was deleted about 10 months ago.

Don't mind this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3RRrLE5IOQ
(Youtube didn't notify me that someone replied to my comment, so that's why this response is 5 months late)And you've probably already found it by now, so I don't even know what I'm doing.

Jacob Belyea

2y↑1

BEO2 I never even knew there was a video for that song. You have a link?

Don't mind this

3y↑9

I found it. It was Climbing up the walls.

Chelsey Jenkins

2y↑5

I Love How This Is Song Was In Twilight God It Makes Me Proud!!

VonteTheSenju

3y↑19

whos here from twilight?

Layavish

arturleaorf no duh

Layavish

아햏햏 good moive

Alan Bernard

PlayBoy Tra 🐰 mee

Bobbity McBoberson Bobzington Bobbins Baabu

2y↑1

I was hoping this wouldn't happen...

게오르크루카치

2y↑9

Good song on shit movie...

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Gabriella Montez

41w

Everyone talking about anime when I came here for twilight 😂😂

Azades Hernandez Belmonte

5y↑7

15 Step

15 acid ;)

Reafux

1y↑2

I think this video is about heartbreak and paranoia, which is partly portrayed through the scary faces on the trains and him fearing everything, as well as thinking about the girl and her falling apart

Eloquen

3y↑2

this feels like the video for Kanye West - Good Morning.

Julia The Doormat

2y↑1

Why anime ?! 🤷‍♀️🤦‍♀️

Daniel Thompson

19w

"a glass of plastic."
,dan'

Maria Perez

3y↑1

This is my favorite song of all time, and while I like the animation... idk... I liked when we the listeners used to have our own interpretations. The videos are fine but the music is transcendent and inspiring and moving on its own; I feel like there's no need for a video or an added meaning to it. Let the music do the job.

geraldomoura moura

Maria Perez 🐍🐱🐈🐒🐵🐘🐊🐞🌷

My name is August West

3y↑1

Radiohead sets the artistic standard

20THCENTURYBOY

I just realized the eyeballs and skulls embedded in the train even tho ive seen this video multiple times

Luis Fedalizo

22w↑1

Didn't know this one had a music video.

Ceam Mary

2y↑1

Cuando Radiohead subía AMV xdxd

Cleiton Rc

18w↑3

Radiohead 🤘 2020🇧🇷

C4sandvitch

2y↑1

Is ThIs An AnImAtIoN mEmE!?!

1000 π

1y↑1

3:46 she called him "fat" or debu

Cecilia Gracelle

32w↑2

I love this song & I love Twilight. ❤️🌘

Berserk Monkey

All these years I'd been listening to this song on my speaker. I tried it on my earplugs today, boy was I blown away.

Angelica Rafale

51w↑17

Does anyone still listen to this in 2019?

sekeich rec.

43w

kid

sekeich rec.

43w

pussy

sekeich rec.

43w

dick

Patrick Lauer

44w↑1

Angelica Rafale here

These Bitches Want Nikes

48w↑2

Angelica Rafale almost everyday

Curry Muncher

40w↑1

My dad raised me on Radiohead until he died, I miss those days 😪

UltraDestroyer 666

40w

happy easter your dad is die

Miku Doll

40w

lol ur dad died

Jojo's Moderate Trip

7y↑1

Most I can get out of it at this moment is someone who had a tortured upbringing as a fat nerd (abusive mom maybe with the robot, bodybuilder father who was all show and nothing more with the pink arm guy, baby transformation thing, "you used to be all right") who decides to lose weight, but I'm assuming he goes schizophrenic in the process from the obsession? Best I can make of it without delving further into researching the lyrics and interviews and such.

James Hunter

@ThunderSnowLightning YES!!!! OH MY GOD THAT WOULD BE THE MOST AMAZING TOUR!!! Radiohead AND the Fleet Foxes, both with new albums!?! A beautiful idea my friend... ; )

Rez Kid

This video was trippy...whoa. I like it! :)

Alejandro Sanchez

Best anime of 2008: Radiohead

izzy khan

I thought it said 'I cut my hand up when I started'

Jerry Turner

11y

this is my favorite song of radiohead

Charles Uzuegbunam

Such an amazing song ...!!! In Rainbows is one of the best albums ever!!! So smooth and just plain genius!! :D

Ongo Gablogian

2y↑2

Anime = Overrated

Good song though

Ongo Gablogian

2y↑1

My opinion.

Edit: And besides you can't compare explosions to anime, movies maybe...

G Ren

2y↑1

T H I C C C L O U D that doesnt make any sense, thats like saying......movies=overrated or booms=overrated

Patrick Sheehan

11y

the video really missed the mark i had envisioned for this song... to each his own i guess. the animation was well-done no doubt, but i just didn't feel the connection between the events on screen the meaning of the music and lyrics.

Edgy Kid #42

3:46 vibe check

Michael

everytime i see a vid for a non mainstream song ppl say "whats the deep meaning"

Kaylina Burch

Parts of this reminds me of Akira when Testuo is transforming... well, mutating...

DaIrishGuy

11y

3:50 thats a skunk weed growing

Gonzaa Rmt

4y↑1

come on guys... is not that hard

Vanilla Isis

6y↑121

Stay off acid kids...

my life is a meme

39w

@TheNextgenballer I did acid before weed and honestly fuck weed MDMA is the shit

FlyingYak ________________

1y↑1

TheNextgenballer nah that fucks your brain development, stick with acid

TheNextgenballer

@Robby1424 ok fuck no do weed in teens wait for acid

Goddess Anime Freak

Vanilla Isis lmao bro wtf

Li F

2y↑2

Stay on bases kids...

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Lil PUMP

31w↑2

This looks like Diamond is unbreakable . JJBA

yourlittleplantbasedglitch

Too cute but the cartoon explains how I feel when I listen to this song <3

ShikaBoom22

11y

I love the song XD the video it's hard to understand so I 'm not talking about it. but, I do love anime..

GloryToTheFilmmaker

I love the Paranoid Android reference at 3:09

Anthony Deng

looks like one of my everyday dreams.

Eblanc

12y

I feel so cheated. Just when I thought I had Radiohead figured out... I mean, I would never had guess that Radiohead would include Anime on any of their proyects. Good Job Thom.