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more productive
comfortable
not drinking too much
regular exercise at the gym (3 days a week)
getting on better with your associate employee contemporaries
at ease
eating well (no more microwave dinners and saturated fats)
a patient better driver
a safer car (baby smiling in back seat)
sleeping well (no bad dreams)
no paranoia
careful to all animals (never washing spiders down the plughole)
keep in contact with old friends (enjoy a drink now and then)
will frequently check credit at (moral) bank (hole in wall)
favours for favours
fond but not in love
charity standing orders
on sundays ring road supermarket
(no killing moths or putting boiling water on the ants)
car wash (also on sundays)
no longer afraid of the dark
or midday shadows
nothing so ridiculously teenage and desperate
nothing so childish
at a better pace
slower and more calculated
no chance of escape
now self-employed
concerned (but powerless)
an empowered and informed member of society (pragmatism not idealism)
will not cry in public
less chance of illness
tires that grip in the wet (shot of baby strapped in back seat)
a good memory
still cries at a good film
still kisses with saliva
no longer empty and frantic
like a cat
tied to a stick
that's driven into
frozen winter shit (the ability to laugh at weakness)
calm
fitter, healthier and more productive
a pig
in a cage
on antibiotics


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the antibiotics | Reviewer: davman | 5/3/12

I honestly think that all of the things described in the song are the anti-biotics that permit us to be caged. Behind the positive messages of getting along with our coworkers and living a safe life are cues that prevent us from seeing the bigger picture... that we are constantly oppressed.

Without these things, without the anti-biotics, life in this world would be so unbearable that we will actually resist and fight back. But that's the point. That's why we are constantly bombarded with them.

Sad, very sad. But very astute in part of Radiohead.

Will not cry in public | Reviewer: Andrew | 7/16/11

I don't think the song has that clear a message, that's the beauty of it, it's about surface happiness that is expected and somewhat forced onto us and creeping sense of fear and despair underneath it.

There is some political element in it, because government always plays its role in this process of manufacturing aspirations and pacifying the public, but mostly I think the song is just about this surface happiness and the question of why it doesn't equal real happiness, and why the paranoia creeps beneath the surface.

Great paranoid music and noises accompany the narration.

its up to you | Reviewer: Anonymous | 5/17/11

if you every day wait for his ending,and every year your wating for the summer vacation aand then in the summer you wait to see youre friends at school.....well "no suprises", your the pig in a cage on antibiotics, thom is here to say avoid bieing that pig that just waits for the end,
try to find the good stuff and ejecating things at every thing you do,
if its on traffic ,hard day of job/school, "boring" speech,try to love the "nerds" ot the "freaks".
do not wait for the "light", for that oneday that will change.... it will not come!!!!!!
this song is to show you where you are, not what to do no one will;no radiohead album,no mom,no nothing...wake up
P.S when your thinking of lyrics of a song, try to read beetweenthe lines not only what you see.

Release the animals! | Reviewer: Nintendo | 1/17/11

Yes, this song is describing our materialistic and capitalistic world. We are day in day out animals in a cage waiting for 5pm to hit so we can finally go to our other cage (the car) and drive home in smoggy traffic, so that for maybe 2-4h we can have peace at home until we have to sleep and start up the next day locked in a cage again. But my question is . . how do we break free? How can we continue being part of society, having enough money to survive and enjoy life, yet not feel so trapped? Radiohead . . you point out our societal issues perfectly . . now please, please show us the light at the end of the tunnel . . where do we go from here? How do we break free? Hopefully the next album can shed some light :)

Obviously... nowadays | Reviewer: Gabriel | 12/28/10

If only I had listened to this song back there in '97... nothing would happen, 'cos I was just a teenager and my mind "busy" w/other stuff (girls I couldn't get close to...).
For some reason I've been avoiding this song for the last 3 years (more or less), but that's probably because I often pay more attention to melodies rather than lyrics. Or maybe because I was avoiding the truth I was living (and "am" I must confess, at least some of this stuff that Radiohead points us). Ok, let's suppose we all know this is true, now what? I mean, how do you get out of the system without suffering? It's a huge (or tiny?) cage perfectly assembled, don't you think?
I think this band makes a wonderful job with it's lyrics showing us part of the reality that surrounds us and we don't even look at. I wonder if that's the way (looking at it) where suffering ends, like Krishnamurti used to say.

PS: my apologies for my poor english.

... | Reviewer: sofi | 4/6/10

you don't have to think about the future. It's describing our present. Our daily life.
It's not 1984; there is no imagination in this. This is our fitter healthier and more productive life. We are, now, the pigs in cages with antibiotics.
It's just perfect. I mean, didn't it make you remember of someone when it says "a safer car
(baby smiling in back seat),
sleeping well
(no bad dreams)"; "an empowered and informed member of society
(pragmatism not idealism),
will not cry in public,
less chance of illness"?
It's only our ideal; the ideal of citizen in our style of life.
If anybody meets a person like that in real life, he/she would probably say "what a kind and equilibrated person he/she is".

"A pig in a cage on H1N1" | Reviewer: Huxley | 3/22/10

It's about time people are waking up from their programmed "american idol" sleep. I agree with the others, read "Industrial Society and it's future", "Brave New World", "1984", etc. Watch "EndGame" and "Zeitgeist". Look up the "Bilderberg Group" and understand that they rule the world and are pulling the strings of the puppets. And don't believe the hype, because they own the news. Thom knows it, he's writing albums about it! "A pig in a cage on H1N1"

another perspective | Reviewer: Carlitos | 1/2/10

To me, this seems to be something from the book "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley. A sort of brainwashing tape to be happy, it's meant to be heard over and over again while you sleep for a long time to stay inside your mind like an obvious truth.

fdssfd | Reviewer: sdfdfs | 12/4/09

if you want to understand this song and the problems with modern society read theordore kaczynsky's essay "Industrial Society and Its Future".. he is also known as the unabomber... a man who really understands how technology enslaves mankind. It is a beast whos stomach is never full, who eats us alive. The more technology we develop the more we become enslaved to it and powerless without. Eventually to reach a point where we are incapable of survival without machines, where machines themselves become too complex for us to control or even to perform maintanance on. We will be reduced to parasites, completely powerless and without freedom.

Radiohead are incredible! | Reviewer: Michelle | 11/9/09

I see this as the way that we're "meant to live". Technically, all aspects of this "life" are perfect. We all strive to have all of these things and see that as the ultimate goal, resulting in a so-called perfect life. But life can't be perfect. We're never satisfied, but that's just the way it is.
Listening to this song freaks my out because, while we all aim for these things, it sounds like such a horrible, robotic, meaningless life. I would never want to live like that.

we are all paranoid androids | Reviewer: Peter | 7/16/09

I think what this song is about the way of life that such the government and the media how works hand by hand with the government wants us to live. to live a paranoid life searching for the standards that society has put for a good life so you you don't realize how the government and the media is winning millions on your behalf and controlling your life. and that the pig is us that the cage is the four walls of our office and the antibiotics is the news or the shows that are selected wisely so they can control us.
What do you think what the government wants a Ph.D professor of Harvard University or a guy who collects the garbage from the street all day so at the end of the day he can have food in his table after not eating all day long? This is the same the government wants more a controlled pigs working all day long in four wall office in search for the perfect life than really realize what is going on with there country and there money...

Speak up! Don't let no one shut what you have to say! The perfect life is the one you make of yourself. Is up to you chose if you want the "pig" life or a life of your own...

Radiohead | Reviewer: Anonymous | 6/18/09

This song scares the shit out of me. its one of my favorites, but i've never heard such a chilling creepy fortune. The voice rivals that of Pink Floyd's The Wall.Love this song though, I think it's telling of a life we're going to be living. I can almost see this coming out of the book 1984 by George Orwell.

radiohead are THE band of this generation | Reviewer: finbar | 6/18/09

imho, this song is about modern society and it's ability to make you feel included and empowered and at the same time completly impotent and alienated, which in reality is what you are. you can tick all the right boxes, do all the prescribed activities, live 'right' etc, but still be pointless and 'animal'in you decisions, with very little real choice and power over your destiny.
Radiohead are the prophets of this generation and the one really great pop band. Throw away your bland Coldplay drivel and get the real thing!!

. | Reviewer: mas | 5/31/09

What i got from this song personally (im probably wrong though) was a sort of brave new world kind of idea, the whole "Community, Identity, Stability" kind of deal.
Its really kind of scary to think about, those last lines really freak me out

this may be far off but... | Reviewer: a person | 4/22/09

I think that this song is kind of like a metaphor for the future. The refrences to having a bad life BEFORE ("getting on better with your associate employee contemporaries" "no longer afraid of the dark or midday shadows ") is kind of like the world in turmoil. Humanity has destroyed Earth and each other until something happens and the world is at peace again. Everything seems better than before, but at the end "a pig
in a cage
on antibiotics." Is like humanity being trapped in the new life. Its not really human anymore but programed machines to have a good life. This "trapped" situation might be like the book Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury or The Giver (I forget who wrote it.) Both of these books are futuristic society's where humans hae given up choice and most feelings and emotions.


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