Transport,
motorways and tramlines
Starting and then stopping
Taking off and landing
The emptiest of feelings
Disappointed people clinging on to bottles
And when it comes it's so so disappointing
Let down and hanging around
Crushed like a bug in the ground
Let down and hanging around
Shell smashed, juices flowing
Wings twitch, legs are going
Don't get sentimental
It always ends up drivel
One day I'm going to grow wings
A chemical reaction
Hysterical and useless
Hysterical and ...
Let down and hanging around
Crushed like a bug in the ground
Let down and hanging around
Let down again
Let down again
Let down again
You know, you know where you are with
You know where you are with
Floor collapsing
Floating, bouncing back
And one day....
I am going to grow wings
A chemical reaction
Hysterical and useless
Hysterical and...
Let down and hanging around
Crushed like a bug in the ground
Let down and hanging around
Back to Radiohead Lyrics.
Back to Follow Me Around.
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Available on: OK Computer, Paranoid Android (Japan CD),
Karma Police (Japan CD), Karma Police (France CD), Let Down promo single.
Other Versions: none.
This track was recorded in the ballroom of actress Jane Seymour's mansion
at 3 am. It closes with computerized sounds created by zx Speectrum
computers, which all the members of Radiohead owned in the 1970s. Jonny
explains what it's all about: "It's like when Andy Warhol said he
enjoyed being bored. It's about that feeling that you get when you're not
in control of it -- you just go past thousands of places and thousands of
people and you're completely removed from it" (Sutherland,
"Return"). [Radiohead: From a Great Height]
Thom: I was pissed in a club, and I suddenly had the funniest thought
I'd had for ages - what if all the people who were drinking were hanging
from the bottles... if the bottles were hung from the ceiling with string,
and the floor caved in, and the only thing that kept everyone up was the
bottles? It's also about an enormous fear of being trapped.
The song closes with computerized
sounds created by zx Spectrum computers.
Jonny: It's like when Andy Warhol said he enjoyed being bored. It's about
that feeling you get when you're not in control of it - you just go past
thousands of places and thousands of people and you're completely removed
from it.
Jonny: Andy Warhol once said that he could enjoy his own boredom. 'Let
down' is about that. It's the transit-zone feeling. You're in a space, you
are collecting all these impressions, but it all seems so vacant. You don't
have control over the earth anymore. You feel very distant from all these
thousands of people that are also walking there.
Ed: It's about the lack of control. You feel more sad than angry. But
why Thom sings 'crushed like a bug in the ground', I don't
know.
Thom: I am fascinated by the sound that insects make that are being
crushed. Especially wasps make a strange sound when you crush them.
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