Just as you write my number down
Just as the drinks arrive
Just as they play your favourite song
As the magic disappears
No longer wound up like a spring
Before you've had too much
Come back and focus again
You've got a cheshire cat grin
All blurring into one
This place is on a mission
Before the night owl
Before the animal noises
Closed circuit cameras
Before you're comatose
Before you're lost between the noise
The beat goes round and round
The beat goes round and round
I never really got there
I just pretended that I had
What's the point of instruments?
Words are a sawed off shotgun
Come on and let it out
Come on and let it out
Come on and let it out
Before you start unravelling
Before you take my mic
Just as you dance, dance, dance
There is nothing to explain
Regard each other as you pass
She looks back, you look back
Not just once
Not just twice
Wish away the nightmare
Wish away the nightmare
You've got a light you can feel it on your back
You've got a light you can feel it on your back
Jigsaws falling into place
This is a good one... I can't wait for the new album. Seems to be in a similar lyrical vein to HTTT.
Oh, my God!
If these songs are this fucking great live, just imagine what they can do with them in the studio?
a lot of the new songs seem to have themes about the agenda of globalists out there, at least to me. Like this song.
CCTV and the police state, drugging us up to keep us docile. Wish away the nightmare, the general apathy of a populace when it comes to facing hard realities. The globalist jigsaw is coming together. unchecked power, corruption, etc. 2+2=5. I may be totally off, but this subtle and not so subtle theme seems to be in Bodysnatchers, bangers and mash, and a lot of their stuff since HTTT.
OPEN PICK just as you take my hand just as you write my number down just as the drinks arrive just as they play your favourite song as the magic disappears no longer wound up like a spring before you've had too much come back and focus again
the walls are bending shape you've got a cheshire cat grin all blurring into one this place is on a mission before the night owl before the animal noises closed circuit cameras before you're comatose
before you take my hand before you start unravelling the beat goes round and round the beat goes round and round i never really got there i just pretended that I did what's the point of instruments words are a sawed-off shotgun
come on and let it out come on and let it out come on and let it out come on and let it out before you start unravelling before you take your last peek just as you take the money just as you dance, dance, dance
jigsaw's falling into place tonight there's nothing to explain regard each other as you pass she looks back, you look back not just once not just twice wish away the nightmare wish away the nightmare you've got a light you can feel it on your back you've got a light you can feel it on your back jigsaw's falling into place
The lyrics changed a bit over the 2006 tour but these are closer, though I am sure there are mistakes.
I think there could be several interpretations, and a political one (if a more personal one is used as the metaphor) is possible. Another possible one is exactly what is in the lyrics. It seems to be set in a club. Thom (or whoever this is supposed to represent) meets a woman he likes, she takes his phone number, their drinks arrive, then things start falling apart (the magic disappears) she says the wrong thing (words are like a sawed-off shotgun) and he's asking her to re-focus, say the right thing now. At the end he is saying that everything will be clear (jigzaw's falling into place) once the difficult part is over (wish away the nightmare), once she puts her defences down and says the right thing to him. The lines 'regard each other as you pass/she looks back/you look back/not just once/not just twice') mean this is a song about two people who are attracted to each other.
what a class song, how do they do it? cant wait for new album
The new material (previewed on recent tour and freely avilable on the net) is some of the best stuff they have ever written, and the final much hyped "return to guitar-based rock"
This song is about a man who picks up women in bars on a regular basis, but cannot form emotional attachments to them, and is sick of the process but cannot give it up, as it's the closest he can come to real feeling. It helps if you've heard it sung by Thom, as you can hear the weariness in the opening lines, the feeling of "as usual"; the irony behind "come on and let it out" - at once a standard line in so many house and indie tracks, but here the sentiment is bitter and directed at himself - he is incapable of the sort of free-spiritedness implied. "i never really got there i just pretended that I did" Speaks for itself, and "Words like a sawn-off shotgun" is his own comment on the effectiveness of his banter.
That's what I reckon, anyhoo...
Agree with eatenbytheworms' post except the ending lyrics:
Wishing away the nightmare Wishing away the nightmare You gotta Act You can feel it on your back You gotta Act You can feel it on your back The jigsaw's falling into place
I think it's about inspiration through music to take action about "the nightmare" everyone is "wishing away." Everyone is realizing it through the feeling of music, not necessarily through explicit words or instruments(the jigsaw is falling into place).
i'd like it better if the lyrics were "got a knife, you can feel it on your back" that seems to be what i hear, but of course considering Thom wrote that on deadairspace, i'm likely wrong.
anyways, either about pickin' up women in bars who you're barely attracted to emotionally, and hating yourself for not finding someone to fit that niche, but knowing it may not be your fault.
Thom seems to always play on mental health, and societal issues very well, and this song is great at both.
I like your interpretation related to how music makes the jigsaw fall into place, foamweapons. i think it works. Music does indeed help us make sense of things. But I think your lyrics are wrong. Listen to the 9 May performance with good speakers. I think my lyrics are correct. And I am sure the line 'you got a light you can feel it on your back' is correct because Thom Yorke wrote it in the band's blog (Dead Air Space). It's in an entry titled 'whatever' from 31 January if you want to verify it. The song was called "Pay Day" before. And there was one line (at least) that was different. It was 'You just got paid' into 'Jigsaw's falling into place'. Quite a radical change, in my opinion, as it changes the interpretation of the song.