Reviews for High and Dry Lyrics

awesome some by radiohead. and to paranoid android (the guy that wrote the review a few before mine), man, i totally agree with you. radiohead is like an escape from all the shit thats going on. the last line of your review was exactly the same for me. love this song and anything other. their genius's.

I think that High and Dry has so many meanings it is difficult to comprehend them all, you hear the one that suits you at the particular time you need it, or rather, feel it.

It has immense power as a song, but it's not the lyrics, or the music, as I don't think one would work without the other.

I don't find the song as enjoyable as Creep, but that's just me I guess.

You can never state a just meaning for the song, itll always be an opinion. To me, the song shows how someone lost the only chance he had, the only chance he had with the love of his life, for something no where near as great.

in my very humble opinion(i'm only 15)
it is about getting caught up in a certain act drugs etc the whole euphoric state that comes from it the attention the idea of being part of something bigger than you, start to see the side affects you lose everything you once had your left useless,out of it mentally absent,and the pyshical side affects ''insides falling apart'' and how everyone now just looks at you with dismay...you've lost it everything relationships you had with people
i guess i love this song because i can relate to it alot of my mates have gone completely off the rails with drugs and now there just not all there. left high and dry
thanks radiohead for another masterpiece

in my very humble opinion (i'm only 15)
this about getting caught up in a certain act..mainly drugs i take "Two jumps in a week" means the person is getting high more frequently and has shot up twice that week. He thinks it's clever because he hasn't seen the downfall yet,than the side effects start to kick in hes left mentally absent, physically sick ''drying up in conversation'' hes unable to converse.. hes just not all there anymore..the lines about people hating him is the misinterpretaion of dismay they feel for a ruined life and the best thing going away is simply people deserting him that sense of isolation..
i can relate to this cause alot of my friends have gotten fucked up on drugs and now all they are is high or when there not there dry and only thinking about there next session
thanks radiohead for another masterpiece

You know once in a while you hear a song that personifies exactly how youre fealing at that time.Its not even the words,Its the tone.And for me after losing someone I deeply cared about"High and Dry"really does it for me.I heard it first in that Chuck and Larry movie and I cant stop listening to it.That and "Remember to Breathe" by Dashboard Confessional...OH MY!!

i dont speak english very well
but i really wanted to leave a comment
about this song,
i started listening to it about 2 weeks ago,
because a friend told me that it was pretty good.
so now, i can stop listening to it.
its really funny because i had told him that i wouldnt like the same music that he listens to, but i was wrong.
well, kisses
and good vibes for everyone,
and sorry about my horrible english
i did all i could for u 2 understand me

i dont know for sure if it is about eddie kidd unless it was a foreshawdowing of his crash.(which it could very well be) the album came out in april 1995 eddie had his accident in august 1996. although it makes perfect since. i think the song maybe about thom getting caught up in fame and fortune and for a split second got caught up in a mess maybe similar to eddie. but the song i believe is about him catching himself before it was too late. before he was lefte high and dry and his words wernt good anymore.

I may be wrong, but i heard somewhere that the song is about Eddie Kidd, the British stunt rider, who emulated Evil Knevel, but with filmstar looks, great attitude, very brave. Bit of a National hero over here
Came a cropper after bad accident, i believe braindamaged now. Heartbreaking.
The words fit his story perfectly

If anyone can confirm or deny that, i would be grateful...

ps bends and ok computer should be played on repeat...beautiful songs

this is one of teh bests fuch¿king songs in evcery globe now we need music like that no more bullshit like many bands only bullshit we need talent, dedication and intelligent music please and radiohead rules...............

I think, when you are into something sharing it with someone else (maybe an activity, a project, an addiction, a crime, a feeling, or even non personal relationships as a tendency, a style, a "school" ) between the individuals bounded by some of these kind of facts, there is a main idea, even if is not explicit, even between people never known each other in person, wich is the "we are in this together" so there is a reciprocal feeling about someone else who represented for him a cell-mate, a similar one, forced to be there doing their role in the story, some who, lets say, shared the guilt with him, some guilt expressed when the "dont leave me high..." points to one sharing the same position nwhich was not more than a shame (maybe) for him (themselves) until he was left alone, in the carrying of a responsability that was not up to himself by nature..

i dont know, dont want to be snob or seem to be a fan,of characters, (musical off course) but reading the 90´s decade, the new tendence in decaying rock in mainstream was dull and made the sad, junkie-like feeling - living mood in music also as in look, and attitude, was a signal of what became a natural and daily reality... like a "spokesman" of a coming and growing generation .. maybe he reffered to his own esteem, his own self conffidence, wich left him behind, or even he talked to other famous or representative artist, may be about Kurt Cobain maybe complaining himself about not have done him before, or better complaining about his lonesome position in history. Two jumps ina week may represent the excess, the "inmature exceeded behavior" as he said you think isd pretty clever? (in the sense cobain made his miss-selfcare, his selfdestructive excess living his publicitary campaing).. When say "about broke another mirror .. so as cobain said in some of his lyrics about, been ugly "we broke our mirrors", maybe in that point i center the comparisson because lithium is a song where Cobain is joking ironicaly as so as painful about his way to find calm "So happy" only by antidepressants, fact that bound this two mentioned songwriters, as Yorke was Narcoleptic (narke-lepsis) patient and have a tendence to depression too. The turning into something you are not may picture the way he saw cobain come undone, missdrowing himself , leaving yorke, high and dry.. being the only one to keep the cold deadly sad sight to the camera and the voice high and mood down.

mnight be

This is one of Radiohead's best songs from their early years. You know, before their masterpiece Kid A. Before Ok Computer, Amnesiac, Hail To The Thief, In Rainbows, and all of their live releases, and EP's. Kid A is when they were the greatest band in the history of music. But they were always great. And this song, High And Dry, is (Besides Street Spirit) the best off The Bends. No, it's obviously NOT about a daredevil. It's not regret either in my opinion, but just a song of unrequitted love. In my opinion. The person who said, "Like poetry you can interpret it how you want"... this IS poetry. As is all Radiohead lyrics. It's not LIKE poetry, but it is poetry. You want proof of this? Look up the lyrics to anything off In Rainbows, particularly Jigsaw Falling Into Place. Or the song Like Spinning Plates. They are the greatest musical group of all time, because of their genius. After I fell in love with them a year ago, I will always be paranoid. As an android. I love their tribute to Bob Dylan by naming a song Subterranean Homesick Alien. They are genius. The song meaning? Life sucks. And the world sucks, and we can't understand it, and when you aren't a perfectly viewed human being, everyone will look at you off. When they look at you at all. I have to listen to Radiohead a lot to know I'm not the only guy in the world in love with someone who can't love me back.

Like a poem, you can interpret it how you wish and find different meanings. However, I believe there is a main intended meaning which in this case is talking about the use of cocaine. I don't know if he's talking about someone else or himself.

I think it is about cocaine because I believe the motorcycle bit is a metaphor for getting high. Two jumps is getting high twice in one week - not two motorcycle jumps. "You'd kill yourself for recognition" refers to the idea that he is doing cocaine as it seems to get the user attention. Then look at "You broke another mirror", which clearly refers to cocaine and breaking it shows that he is getting worse and worse, enforced by the following "you're turning into something you are not".
The next verse "all your insides fall to pieces" etc. is the effects of cocaine in the long term

That's so true lol i feel exactly the same radiohead songs give improtant advice on how to live a happy life. i'm always looking forward to things in life and not cherishing what i have now but when the things i take for granted disappear il realise how lucky i've been. <3 radiohead

its been 6 yrs wen the first time i heard this song, high and dry brought me back into life during highskul youth. this is great great song anf its relate on me a lot. radiohead please give me another song like this..alvin chua at Philippines