| | Idioteque Lyrics Artist(Band):Radiohead
Who's in a bunker? Women and children first And the children first And the children I laugh until my head comes off I swallow till I burst Until I burst Until I Who's in a bunker? Who's in a bunker? I've seen too much You haven't seen enough You haven't seen it I laugh until my head comes off Women and children first And children first And children Here I'm alive Everything all of the time Here I'm alive Everything all of the time Ice age coming Ice age coming Let me hear both sides Let me hear both sides Let me hear both Ice age coming Ice age coming Throw them in the fire Throw them in the fire Throw them in the We're not scare mongering This is really happening Happening We're not scare mongering This is really happening Happening Mobiles quirking Mobiles chirping Take the money and run Take the money and run Take the money Here I'm alive (background: and first and the children . . .) Everything all of the time Here I'm alive Everything all of the time Here I'm alive Everything all of the time Here I'm alive Everything all of the time and first and the children . . . If you find some error in Idioteque Lyrics, would you please submit your corrections to me? Thank You. Thanks to cupcake for submitting the lyrics. Review about Idioteque Prophetic | Reviewer: Anonymous | 8/21/09 The Pitchfork.com rundown of the best songs of the 00s got me thinking about Radiohead's Idioteque. Not to assign any great clairvoyance to Thom Yorke, especially concerning a song written in 2000, but have you actually read those lyrics lately? Could anything have summed up this decade more accurately? References to bunkers: terrorist attacks, anthrax, Cheney, Sars, Swine flu, etc. Ice age coming: the age of Bush; the age of truthiness; the realization we'd have to face a new dark ages in our lifetime Let me hear both sides: the corporate media chatterhouse/clusterfuck. We're not scare mongering: obvious. Mobiles chirping: written before most people had cell phones. Take the money and run: the corporate/wall street culture that brought us to the great recession. But more than all of those lines, the lines in particular that strike me are: "This is really happening/Happening" That would be such a solid epitaph for the 00s. It sums up the most common emotion I know I felt over and over again over the past decade for various reasons. It calls to mind everything from the horror of watching the towers fall with your own eyes, to the Iraq war taking place against all reason, to Katrina begging to world to believe what was really going on there to not being able to believe we actually elected the black guy. I think Idioteque not only sums up a lot of the mood of the 00s, but it eerily nails a lot of the details of the decade before they even happened. Imagine being able to go back and time and tell the you of 10 years ago some of the things that were in store for the world. Would you have believed you? I hear different :D | Reviewer: Roxana | 7/17/09 Uhm, I just wanted to say that it's not "here I'm allowed/everything all the time" it's "here I'm alive/ it's a matter of time" at least that's the way I hear it in the song, which changes the whole meaning of the phrase. I reckon | Reviewer: Dale | 7/13/09 The people arguing this song is about the Holocaust, I think more likely it's about a future nuclear war. "Who's in the bunker" I don't normally post on these but that annoyed me a bit. You'll be saying that Creep's about a guy with no legs next. Mobiles kwirking...we're not scaremongering etc The artwork with the nuke on America. not wrong, not right | Reviewer: Thomas | 7/8/09 I think the reason so many of us are seeing this song as a holocaust reference is that the holocaust is a terrible but well known part of history which everyone is taught about in school. I can't pretend to be inside thom yorke's mind and know what he was thinking when he wrote this song, but i believe this song is broader than the holocaust. Yes, the horror and confusion of the holocaust well fits these lyrics, but we shouldn't allow ourselves to be confined to that one possibility. To me, this is a song about widespread fear of an unstoppable force to which the only end is either death or an attempt to run from said force. holocaust | Reviewer: miz lis | 6/23/09 It makes sense to me that the song is about the holocaust and concentration camps. Women and children were the first to go into the gas chambers (ill laugh until my head comes off, ill swallow till i burst) is about the gas chambers. Ice age coming (they've said that the ashes from those chambers would come out from the top and it would look like snow falling on the ground, there's a very good movie i can't remember the name of that references the snow fact) and they lived in bunkers in the camps. now as for the mobiles chirping and quirking? unless he meant to write walkie talkies but couldnt find a rhyme, then that would be the only marker to indicate its not about the concentration camps as there were no cell phones back then. lol But thats what makes sense to me!! Striking. | Reviewer: Dafne | 6/9/09 The first thing that popped into my head when I read these lyrics: Holocaust. The first line just gives it away and all of the other ones reinforce it. I could be wrong, but I think this song is pretty straightforward. It's great that an artist as great as Radiohead tackled such a strong subject. I think they executed very well. lalla | Reviewer: Anonymous | 5/21/09 to me it seems like the song is just speaking about the panic in our society, but also the hypocrisy surrounding it. All of the women and children first, take the money and run, seem to be suggesting imminent disaster. it seems yorke hops on the environmental topic, but in relation to the use of scaremongering tactics. "let me hear both sides" seems to be a plea for the world to calm down and actually solve their problems. The chorus shows the hypocrisy in our lives, because regardless of how we always talk about going green and saving the world, we still rejoice in excess. "everything all of the time" Your all Wrong (or allright) | Reviewer: Oh | 5/6/09 Your LYrics Are incorrect, for one. Here, im ALIVE ITs a Dub Scaffold For a game called THE, Designed as a rythm mix for Jimy Hendrix's Star spangled Banner Live at woodstock, and The end is Crossreferenced To the Super bowl Shuffle, while the begining requires a patriot missle advertisment, and a coffe from Carly Simons 'YOUR SO VAIN', among other things. When Its Finished It Assimilates Closed Caption Code On Every Movie Ever. Its an A.I. resultant of radioheads access to the useless film database of reccurent event cycles in movies owned by the people who pay them. Its a comment on The Cars 'im in touch with your world'.Its a fake on Van Halen's 'Women and children first' which is acctually a test of MORALITY/Manhood: Put Women and Children first (unless you think negativly, or it reacts negativly)and Steve Miller, ('money' and 'run' being two pinkfloyd songs with useable sound effects)And The first Girl Had it Right, in fact this position in fight club discusses titanic (you havnt seen it) Play it to the movie and you won't wonder what the name means. My thought | Reviewer: Stephanie | 5/4/09 The first time i heard this song, i immediately thought of the movie Titanic. 'Women and children first' because those where the first allowed on the life boats. 'Ice age coming' reminds me of the iceberg. 'Throw them in the fire' reminds me of the workers shoveling the coal into the burners so they could turn the boat away faster. 'Take the money and run' reminds me of when Rose's fiance goes to the safe to get all the money and the necklace.. haha i know its a dumb idea but thats just what i thought :) environmental/political | Reviewer: Anonymous | 5/3/09 i agree with either idea. could be a reference to the global cooling issue which came first in the 1970's and now the other side which is generally accepted.. global warming. could also be about the hesitation britain and france showed at the beginning of ww2 in regard to which side to take. should they side with the soviet union or wait and let the germans and soviets destroy themselves before taking up the fight. hitler preferred fire, while stalin favored ice (the great terror and purges) Review By Pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Review the song Idioteque The area is only for review, if you want to submit the lyrics or the corrections of the lyrics, please click the link at the end of the lyrics.  Download "Radiohead" Music | |
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