Monday, July 21, 2008

Happy Monday Musical Tribute: "Jigsaw Falling Into Place"

Always, always the case that there is at least one Radiohead song which Harrogate cannot get out of his head. The current sublime tyrant is "Jigsaw Falling Into Place," off their spectacular and most recent offering, In Rainbows.

It's more the sheer sound of this song that haunts Harrogate. That opening riff just makes everything, ahem, fall into place


But as the lyrics ought not be denied their heft, Harrogate provides them below, as well.








"Jigsaw Falling Into Place"

Just as you take my hand
Just as you write my number down
Just as the drinks arrive
Just as they play your favourite song
As your bad mood disappears
No longer wound up like a spring
Before you've had too much
Come back in focus again

The walls abandon shape
They've got a cheshire cat grin
All blurring into one
This place is on a mission
Before the night owl
Before the animal noises
Closed circuit cameras
Before you're comatose

Before you run away from me
Before you're lost between the notes
The beat goes round and round
The beat goes round and round
I never really got there
I just pretended that I had
What's the point of instruments
Words are a sawed off shotgun

Come on and let it out
Come on and let it out
Come on and let it out
Come on and let it out

Before you run away from me
Before you start unravelling
Before you take my mic
Just as you dance, dance, dance

Jigsaws falling into place
There is nothing to explain
Regard each other as you pass
She looks back, you look back
Not just once
Not just twice
Wish away the nightmare
Wish away the nightmare
You've got a light you can feel it on your back
You've got a light you can feel it on your back
Jigsaws falling into place

3 comments:

solon said...

What a wonderful song. There is nothing better than listening to this and drinking a cup of coffee during the noon-day hour. Cheers.

Oxymoron said...

Yes, good song. In the absence of coffee, however, not as enjoyable as it might otherwise be.

Do I hear a banjo in the mix?

harrogate said...

Harrogate just watched the video again. Appears to be a pretty small, intimate venue in which the performance was recorded. Damn it makes Harrogate jealous, what a way to see them.

All these years later and still Harrogate finds himself hearing Yorke's voice as though for the first time ever.