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By Pages:   1    2    3    4    Add Your New Review About The Song The Reviews about A Wolf at the Door (page 1/ 4) ------ performed by Radiohead A Wolf at the Door | Reviewer: Hally | 5/2/09 Radiohead never fail to inspire me. Thom Yorke is a lyrical genius. The delivery speaks volumes, and what an emotional dynamic- anxiety and protective instict, submission and then a proud snarl- proves that radiohead have bettered with age. The sarcasm in this is a wonderful tool- not just in the vocals, but the fantasic musical backdrop radiohead create. It's very much open to interpretation - domestic abuse and money trouble are obvious, but it could also be a cry for help in a generation of ignorance. I love lyrics that have a void for a story that comes from the imagination of the listener - and this song hits the nail on the head. Educate your children musically - get them to listen to Radiohead! Not many girls my age are fans - not many I know anyway. A decent music taste makes for a happy life. Promise to be good | Reviewer: Russ | 3/26/09 I think the lyrics are relating a personal domineering abuse to the general abuse meted out to the working / average people. Abused helpless housewife to helpless before cocky financiers. We are all running scared and cowed into submission, terrorized our whole lives by family and later anonymous forces. LOVE IT | Reviewer: Anonymous | 2/19/09 a song really isnt just one story it can also be many stories that are relevant to eachother the first verse that makes refrence to the board game snakes and ladders i think is more about how growing just happens so fast and before you know society fucks you over so you wanna get up and fight about it but you keep getting pushed down and all you can do is scream the second is like how trophy wives and like upper class folk complain about stupid things and the lower or middle class have to deal with the after effects of the upper class's mistakes and that lower class people are born into their situation theyre born to be poor The song | Reviewer: Anonymous | 1/20/09 is actually about domestic abuse Thom stated it somewhere himself. However interpretate it in your own little way as that is the magic of music it can mean different things to different people. no disrespect to anybody here btw My 5 cents | Reviewer: Anonymous | 12/28/08 I think the song is about the situation when somebody understands how everything is really screwd up but when he tries to inform the others about it it back-fires on him; some people just don't want to know the truth, others are incapable of understanding it. Try explaining something people do not want to comprehend and they'll hate you and you'll be alienated and despised by them. In other words the song is about an individual trapped in something he sees as wrong and who is unable to explain that to anyone. yo. | Reviewer: matt fasho | 11/18/08 this song rips on the IRS so hard. and that's what it's about: the IRS, and more specifically how the IRS intimidates people and fucks them over. by all means, interpret the song however you like. but your interpretation is not necessarily (anywhere close to) what the song was originally written to be about. just an idea | Reviewer: Anonymous | 11/16/08 the way he sings it makes me think of that moment when you are so anxious over something you have to protect or something you are trying to prevent happening that you become calm and almost non-discerning. Ganja | Reviewer: Sean | 11/10/08 This song most certainly allows for interpretations. None of which can be right or wrong essentially. This song (lyrically) was written by Thom. Whatever dream he had floating through his head at the time is portrayed in the song. It can mean whatever you want it to mean. And Im sure it means something very specific to him personally - be it serious or fictive. Smoke weed and listen to music. ... | Reviewer: Anonymous | 10/24/08 This is my favorite song of there's. Good art can communicate something to the listeners/audience/viewers/etc while letting it adapt to each person based on their perspective. We all have life experiences that make us percieve this song differently then anyone else. I see the song detailing a form of abuse. Any form. Being beat up, lied to, etc. I was sexually abused and I feel like I can very much relate to it, especially the little red riding hood(alot speculate that the red cape, like cinderella's glass slipper, is a symbol of virginity, btw) and Big Bad Wolf. But that's just me.. some truth | Reviewer: geoff | 9/24/08 A "wolf at the door" is not about a wife and husband and the abuses of their marriage, etc. A wolf at the door is a term used in a variety of ways, most significantly that comes to mind is in politics, which I believe t yorke is referencing here. Politics, especially the Bush administration in the US, has sold the american people on all these ideas that if you dont act now, right now, then this dire consequence is going to happen. eg. 9/11 and the fight against terrorism, the failed economic stimulus packages through out the Bush administration, and now, most recently, the proposed $700 billion bailout plan for the American financial sector. One other thing, i know t yorke said hail to the thief is not about the us president, but the theme of the album eerily reflects a lot about what is going on under the failed Bush administration....almost makes me believe it..almost, but then again, i trust t yorke and if he says it's not, it probably isnt....hell, it's probably more so about the British government and their issues.. Add Your New Review About The Song By Pages:   1    2    3    4