Radiohead signed to EMI in 1991 and released their debut album, Pablo Honey, in 1993; their debut single, "Creep", became a worldwide hit. Radiohead's popularity and critical standing rose with the release of The Bends in 1995. Radiohead's third album, OK Computer (1997), brought them international fame; noted for its complex production and themes of modern alienation, it is acclaimed as a landmark record and one of the best albums in popular music.
Radiohead's fourth album, Kid A (2000), marked a dramatic change in style, incorporating influences from electronic music, jazz, classical music and krautrock. Though Kid A divided listeners, it later attracted wide acclaim. It was followed by Amnesiac (2001), recorded in the same sessions. Hail to the Thief (2003), with lyrics addressing the War on Terror, was Radiohead's final album for EMI.
Radiohead self-released their seventh album, In Rainbows (2007), as a download for which customers could set their own price, to critical and chart success. Their eighth album, The King of Limbs (2011), an exploration of rhythm, was developed using extensive looping and sampling. A Moon Shaped Pool (2016) prominently featured Jonny Greenwood's orchestral arrangements. Yorke, Jonny Greenwood, Selway, and O'Brien have released solo albums; in 2021, Yorke and Jonny Greenwood debuted a new band, the Smile.
By 2011, Radiohead had sold more than 30 million albums worldwide. Their awards include six Grammy Awards and four Ivor Novello Awards, and they hold five Mercury Prize nominations, the most of any act. Seven Radiohead singles have reached the top 10 on the UK Singles Chart: "Creep" (1992), "Street Spirit (Fade Out)" (1996), "Paranoid Android" (1997), "Karma Police" (1997), "No Surprises" (1998), "Pyramid Song" (2001), and "There There" (2003). "Creep" and "Nude" (2008) reached the top 40 on the US Billboard Hot 100. Rolling Stone named Radiohead one of the 100 greatest artists of all time, and Rolling Stone readers voted them the second-best artist of the 2000s. Five Radiohead albums have been included in Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time lists. Radiohead were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2019.
Full Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiohead
Studio albums
Pablo Honey (1993)
The Bends (1995)
OK Computer (1997)
Kid A (2000)
Amnesiac (2001)
Hail to the Thief (2003)
In Rainbows (2007)
The King of Limbs (2011)
A Moon Shaped Pool (2016)
Lotus Flower
Radiohead Lyrics
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Invisible
Do what you want
Do what you want
I will shrink and I will disappear
I will slip into the groove and cut me off
And cut me off
There's an empty space inside my heart
Where the weeds take root
And now I'll set you free
I'll set you free
There's an empty space inside my heart
Where the weeds take root
So now I'll set you free
I'll set you free
Slowly we unfurl
As lotus flowers
'Cause all I want is the moon upon a stick
Just to see what if
Just to see what is
I can't kick your habit
Just to fill your fast ballooning head
Listen to your heart
We will shrink and we'll be quiet as mice
And while the cat is away
Do what we want
Do what we want
There's an empty space inside my heart
Where the weeds take root
So now I'll set you free
I'll set you free
'Cause all I want is the moon upon a stick
Just to see what if
Just to see what is
The bird lights float into my room
Slowly we unfurl
As lotus flowers
'Cause all I want is the moon upon a stick
I dance around the pit
The darkness is beneath
I can't kick your habit
Just to feed your fast ballooning head
Listen to your heart
The lyrics of Radiohead's song Lotus Flower express the theme of surrendering oneself to another person. In the first verse, "I will shape myself into your pocket, invisible" indicates the desire to compromise and become subservient to the other person. The repetition of "do what you want" emphasizes the willingness to do whatever it takes to please them. The following lines "I will shrink and I will disappear" and "I will slip into the groove and cut me off" suggest the loss of one's identity in the process of submission.
The chorus of the song highlights the emptiness inside the singer's heart, where "weeds take root." Instead of holding onto their partner, they choose to set them free, recognizing that they cannot fill the void within. The second verse follows a similar theme to the first, with a hint of rebellion using the metaphor of mice while the cat is away. The line "just to fill your fast ballooning head" suggests the partner's growing ego and need for validation.
The song's bridge ties the theme together by portraying the singer's desire for the unattainable, the "moon upon a stick." While they dance around the pit of their emptiness, "the darkness is beneath," and they cannot kick their partner's habit of needing validation. The song concludes with the repetition of the chorus followed by the line, "listen to your heart," implying that the singer has learned to listen to their own heart and let go, accepting the emptiness inside.
Line by Line Meaning
I will shape myself into your pocket
I will mold myself to fit your needs
Invisible
I will do this without drawing attention to myself
Do what you want
I will let you have control over me
I will shrink and I will disappear
I will make myself smaller and less noticeable
I will slip into the groove and cut me off
I will become part of the background and remove myself from the situation
And cut me off
This is necessary for me to cope
There's an empty space inside my heart
I am missing something important
Where the weeds take root
This void is being filled with negative thoughts and emotions
And now I'll set you free
It's time for me to let go and move on
Slowly we unfurl
We are opening up and revealing ourselves
As lotus flowers
We are beautiful and complex in our growth
'Cause all I want is the moon upon a stick
I have an unattainable desire
Just to see what if
I am curious about the outcome
Just to see what is
I want to understand the truth
I can't kick your habit
I am struggling to break free from your influence
Just to fill your fast ballooning head
I am being used to boost your ego
Listen to your heart
You need to be true to yourself
We will shrink and we'll be quiet as mice
We will make ourselves small and silent to avoid detection
And while the cat is away
We will take advantage of the opportunity
Do what we want
We will take control of the situation
The bird lights float into my room
Positive thoughts and emotions enter my life
I dance around the pit
I am embracing the darkness instead of being afraid of it
The darkness is beneath
There is always something negative lurking beneath the surface
Lyrics ยฉ Songtrust Ave, 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
@SaintMartins
There are "names" for Thom's dance moves......
0:01 the stretch
0:41 the boogie woogie
0:59 hands in ma' pocket
1:17 karate man
1:31 the heart attack
2:39 running chicken
3:01 the earthquaker
3:22 come little doggie
4:22 drunk girl dancing at the party
@xenofonpapougiannakis9654
Lyrics:
I will shake myself into your pocket
Invisible
Do what you want
Do what you want
I will sink and I will disappear
I will slip into the groove
And cut me off
And cut me off
There's an empty space inside my heart
Where the weeds take root
So now I set you free
I set you free
There's an empty space inside my heart
Where the weeds take root
So now I'll set you free
I'll set you free
Slowly we unfurl
As lotus flowers
'Cause all I want is the moon upon a stick
Just to see what if
Just to see what is
I can't kick the habit
"Just to feel your fast ballooning head"
Listen to your heart
We will shrink and then be quiet as mice
And while the cat is away
Do what we want
Do what we want
There's an empty space inside my heart
Where the weeds take root
So now I set you free
I set you free
'Cause all I want is the moon upon a stick
Just to see what if
Just to see what is
The bird that's flown into my room
Slowly we unfurl
As lotus flowers
'Cause all I want is the earth upon a stick
I dance around the pit, the darkness is beneath
I can't kick your habit
"Just to feed your fast ballooning head"
Listen to your heart
@user-ip9yu7lp1q
Lotus Flower (์ฐ๊ฝ)
I will sneak myself into your pocket
๋ ๋ค ์ฃผ๋จธ๋์ ์จ์ด๋ฒ๋ฆด๊ฑฐ์ผ
Invisible, do what you want, do what you want
๋ณด์ด์ง ์๊ฒ, ๋ค๊ฐ ์ํ๋๊ฑธ ํด, ๋ค๊ฐ ์ํ๋๊ฑธ
I will sink and I will disappear
๋ ๊ฐ๋ผ์์๊ฑฐ๊ณ ์ฌ๋ผ์ง๊ฑฐ์ผ
I will slip into the groove
๋ ํ์ ๋ฏธ๋๋ฌ์ ธ ๋ค์ด๊ฐ๊ฑฐ์ผ
and cut me up
๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๋ ์๋ผ์ค
There's an empty space inside my heart
๋ด ๊ฐ์ด ์์ ๋น ๊ณต๊ฐ์ด์ผ
Where the wings take root
๋ ๊ฐ๋ค์ด ๋ฟ๋ฆด ์ก์๊ฑฐ์ผ
So now I'll set you free
๊ทธ๋์ ์ด์ ๋ ๋ ๋์ค๊ฑฐ์ผ
There's an empty space inside my heart
๋ด ๊ฐ์ด ์์ ๋น ๊ณต๊ฐ์ด์ผ
And it won't take root
๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ด๊ฑด ์์ง ๋ฟ๋ฆฌ ๋ด๋ฆฌ์ง ์์์ด
Tonight I'll set you free
์ค๋๋ฐค, ๋ ๋ ๋์ค๊ฑฐ์ผ
Slowly we unfurl
์ฒ์ฒํ ์ฐ๋ฆฐ ํ๊ฑฐ์ผ
As lotus flowers
๋ง์น ์ฐ๊ฝ์ฒ๋ผ
Because all I want is the moon upon a stick
๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๋ด๊ฐ ์ํ๋ ๋ชจ๋ ๊ฑด ๋ง๋์ ๋ฌ ๊ฐ์
Dancing around the pit
๊ตฌ๋ฉ ์ฃผ์์์ ์ถค์ ์ถฐ
Just to see what it is
๊ทธ์ ์ด๊ฒ ๋ญ์ง ๋ณด๊ธฐ ์ํด
I can't kick the habit
๋ ์ด ์ต๊ด์ ๋ฒ๋ฆด ์ ์์ด
Just to feed your fast ballooning head
๊ทธ์ ๋น ๋ฅด๊ฒ ๋ถํธ๋ ๋ค ๋จธ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋จน์ด๊ธฐ ์ํด์
Listen to your heart
๋ค ๋ง์์ ์๋ฆด ๋ค์ด๋ด
We will sink and be quiet as mice
์ฐ๋ฆฐ ์ฅ๋ผ์ฒ๋ผ ์กฐ์ฉํ ๊ฐ๋ผ์์๊ฑฐ์ผ
While the cat is away and do what we want
๊ณ ์์ด๋ค์ด ๋ฉ๋ฆฌ ๋ฌ์๋ ๋ ์ฐ๋ฆฐ ํ๊ณ ์ถ์ ๊ฑธ ํ ๊บผ์
There's an empty space inside my heart
๋ด ๊ฐ์ด ์์ ๋น ๊ณต๊ฐ์ด์ผ
And now it won't take root
๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ง๊ธ ์ด๊ฑด ์์ง ๋ฟ๋ฆฌ๋ด๋ฆฌ์ง ์์์ด
Tonight I'll set you free
์ค๋๋ฐค ๋ ๋ ๋์ค๊ฑฐ์ผ
I set you free
๋ ๋์ค๊ฑฐ์ผ
Because all I want is the moon upon a stick
์๋๋ฉด ๋ด๊ฐ ์ํ๋ ๋ชจ๋ ๊ฒ์ ๋ง๋๊ธฐ์ ๋ฌ์ด๊ฑฐ๋
Just to see what it is
๋จ์ง ์ด๊ฑธ ๋ณด๊ธฐ ์ํด
Just to see what gives
๋จ์ง ๋ฌด์จ ์ผ์ธ์ง ๋ณด๊ธฐ ์ํด
Take the lotus flowers into my room
์ฐ๊ฝ์ ๋ด ๋ฐฉ์ ๋์ค
Slowly we unfurl As lotus flowers
์ฒ์ฒํ ์ฐ๋ฆฐ ํ๊ฑฐ์ผ ๋ง์น ์ฐ๊ฝ์ฒ๋ผ
Cause All I want is the moon upon a stick
์ฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ์ํ๋ ๋ชจ๋ ๊ฒ์ ๋ง๋๊ธฐ์ ๋ฌ์ด๋๊น
Dance around a pit
๊ตฌ๋ฉ ์ฃผ์์์ ์ถค์ ์ถฐ
The darkness is beneath
์ด๋ ์ด ๋ฐ๋ก ๋ฐ์ ์์ด
I can't kick the habit
๋ ์ด ์ต๊ด์ ๋ฒ๋ฆด ์ ์์ด
Just to feed you fast ballooning head
๊ทธ์ ๋น ๋ฅด๊ฒ ๋ถํ์ด ์ค๋ฅด๋ ๋ค ๋จธ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋จน์ด๊ธฐ ์ํด
Listen to your heart
๋ค ๋ง์์ ์๋ฆด ๋ค์ด๋ด
@florentduchalet8458
I will shake myself into your pocket
Invisible
Do what you want
Do what you want
I will sink and I will disappear
I will slip into the groove
And cut me off
And cut me off
There's an empty space inside my heart
Where the weeds take root
So now I set you free
I set you free
There's an empty space inside my heart
Where the weeds take root
So now I'll set you free
I'll set you free
Slowly we unfurl
As lotus flowers
'Cause all I want is the moon upon a stick
Just to see what if
Just to see what is
I can't kick the habit
"Just to feel your fast ballooning head"
Listen to your heart
We will shrink and then be quiet as mice
And while the cat is away
Do what we want
Do what we want
There's an empty space inside my heart
Where the weeds take root
So now I set you free
I set you free
'Cause all I want is the moon upon a stick
Just to see what if
Just to see what is
The bird that's flown into my room
Slowly we unfurl
As lotus flowers
'Cause all I want is the earth upon a stick
I dance around the pit, the darkness is beneath
I can't kick your habit
"Just to feed your fast ballooning head"
Listen to your heart
@beetsbears
I created a dance to this song
Here are the moves to learn
โโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโ
0:50: aggressively shake maracas
0:54: tiktok dances be like
1:01 gangster walk
1:11 completely giving up
1:21 jab the air aggressively
1:27 wth u lookin at?
1:30 seizure time
1:36 heartburn
1:38 turning dials on the washing machine while high
1:49 severe heartburn
1:56 drowning thom
2:05 thom the plant
2:14 too short to reach on top of the fridge
2:28 hats off to you lad
2:38: my hat is a steering wheel
2:40: and it has wings
2:51: goodnight
2:53: jk I have a hammer
2:58: drying off your hands
3:02. electrocuted crab
3:09: EARTHQUAKE
3:24: that monkey toy that claps the cymbals together (donโt know what itโs called)
3:40 makeup commercial
3:51: me wishing for a new Radiohead album
4:22: the thom shuffle
4:52 catch the annoying flies
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This song is brilliant and this comment is a joke
Also try listening to this at x1.50 speed. The dancing is perfect although terrifying
Edit: Thanks for all the nice comments! now I feel like a genius
Another edit: what is your favorite Radiohead song?
My favorites are Talk Show Host, Idioteque, exit music for a film, backdrifts, wolf at the door, electioneering, my iron lung, 15 step, in limbo, let down, and every other song in their discography lol
โขpoint is, I canโt choose a favorite. They all are goodโข
anyone like his solo stuff? or atoms for peace? the smile?
my favorite song from atoms for peace has to be either default or before your very eyes
My favorites of his solo stuff have to be The Clock, Black Swan, Twist, and Traffic
Well anyways, enjoy your music and have a nice day ๐
edit, again: thank you for being so nice in the comments!
@blackogre7719
Radiohead - Lotus Flower (Lyrics)
I will shake myself into your pocket
Invisible
Do what you want
Do what you want
I will sink and I will disappear
I will slip into the groove
And cut me off
And cut me off
There's an empty space inside my heart
Where the weeds take root
So now I set you free
I set you free
There's an empty space inside my heart
Where the weeds take root
So now I'll set you free
I'll set you free
Slowly we unfurl
As lotus flowers
'Cause all I want is the moon upon a stick
Just to see what if
Just to see what is
I can't kick the habit
"Just to feel your fast ballooning head"
Listen to your heart
We will shrink and then be quiet as mice
And while the cat is away
Do what we want
Do what we want
There's an empty space inside my heart
Where the weeds take root
So now I set you free
I set you free
'Cause all I want is the moon upon a stick
Just to see what if
Just to see what is
The bird that's flown into my room
Slowly we unfurl
As lotus flowers
'Cause all I want is the earth upon a stick
I dance around the pit, the darkness is beneath
I can't kick your habit
"Just to feed your fast ballooning head"
Listen to your heart
@paulinairigoyen4708
The song is about a man who is looking for inner peace and emotional freedom. He uses the image of the lotus flower to talk about how he wants to overcome his problems and feel free.
In the song, the man says there's a hole in his heart where love and pain have gone. That means he feels sad and lonely, but he wants to find a way to feel better.
The man also says he imagines everything he could be. That means he's thinking about the things he could do and the people he could meet to find happiness and freedom.
Overall, the song is about how it's important to seek inner peace and happiness, even if it's hard sometimes. The lyrics are very poetic and abstract, but I think the main idea is easy to understand: we all want to be happy and free.
-Chat GPT
@pulllak
Hi, my name's Thom Yorke and I'll be your freestyle dance teacher
@yasminebensalah2835
i once had a dream of Thom Yorke being my teacher xD
@littlejessiej
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@deathlove0211
@@yasminebensalah2835 best dream ever
@ImRunningazoo
I'm in! signed me up ๐๐๐คช
@florian2464
hey Immanuel u very nice but why the f*** is your critique of pure reason so long? and i heard that you died as a virgin of the age of 80, is that linked?
@Jonnygreenwoodno1fan
โWhy do you take so long to shower!??โ
Me in the bathroom:
@iforgoteverythinf
beautiful pic
@helloimclark8834
so relatable man
@tygical
REAL