THE BENDS
where do we go from here? ~ the words are coming out all weird ~ where
are you now when i need you? ~ alone on an aeroplane ~ falling asleep
beside the window pane ~ my blood will thicken ~ I need to wash myself
again to hide all the the dirt and pain ~ I'd be scared but there's
nothing underneath ~ and who are my real friends? ~ have they all got
the bends? ~ am I really sinking this low? ~ my baby's got the bends ~
we don't have any real friends ~ I'm just lying in a bar with my drip
feed on talking to my girlfriend waiting for something to happen ~ I
wish we could be happy ~ I wish I wish I wish that something would
happen ~ where do we go from here? ~ the planet is a gunboat in a sea
of fear ~ and where are you? ~ they brought in the cia ~ the tanks and
the whole marines to blow me away ~ to blow me sky high ~ my baby's got
the bends ~ we don't have any real friends ~ I'm just lying in a bar
with my drip feed on talking to my girlfriend waiting for something to
happen ~ I wish we could be happy ~ I wish I wish I wish that something
would happen ~ I want to live and breath ~ I want to be part of the
human race ~ race, race, race ~
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Available on: The Bends (US CD), The Bends (UK CD), The Bends (Japan CD),
Creep (Belgium CD), The Bends (Belgium promo CD)
Other Versions: 4-track demo - available on: Long Live Tibet. Demo -
available on: Creep (France CD)
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- This track was initially introduced as being about "knowing who your
real friends are and when they're going to come to your gigs". Thom soon
simplified this to "knowing who your friends are". The song reflects
Radiohead's sense of humor.
Of the opening, Thom says, "The sound at the beginning comes from this
caterwauling mayhem outside this hotel in the States. There was this guy
training these eight-year-old kids, who were parading up and down with
all these different instruments. The guy had this little microphone on
his sweater and was going: 'Yeah, keep it up, keep it up.' So I ran out
and taped it".
So many interviewers asked about the line "I wish it was the sixties"
that Thom started to regret having written it: "I really do wish I never
wrote that fucking song -- it's become the bane of my life. Hundreds of
journalists, asking -- every single fucking interview, asking -- 'Do you
wish it was the sixties?' No! I don't wish it was the fucking sixties --
Levi's Jeans wish it was the sixties -- I certainly fucking don't".
The demo version, available on the Long Live Tibet compilation, has loud
guitars at the opening, lo-fi production, a slower temp, and lifeless
vocals with voices singing slightly different lyrics. This version is
interesting simply because it is unusual, but it will just make you love
the album version even more. [Radiohead: From a Great Height]
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