Red wine and sleeping pills
Help me get back to your arms
Cheap sex and sad films
Help me get where I belong
[Chorus]
I think you're crazy, maybe
I think you're crazy, maybe
[Verse 2]
Stop sending letters
Letters always get burned
It's not like the movies
They fed us on little white lies
[Chorus]
I think you're crazy, maybe
I think you're crazy, maybe
[Outro]
I will see you in the next life
About
Originally written the same day as Creep, and in what could possibly be one of the most depressing and bittersweet songs of all time, Thom Yorke muses over lost love and deep sadness. The song uses a haunting organ to set up the drug induced coma imagery that harkens to a beautiful suicide for love and death. The implementation of a despairingly angelic arpeggio harp and parallel lyrics all help to summarize the song as Thom sings painfully “I will see you in the next life”.
A fitting final track.
Q&A
Find answers to frequently asked questions about the song and explore its deeper meaning
Radiohead began writing this song in 1987, around the same time as “Creep”, so the song went through several iterations before its final release in 2000. Though it is unknown which was recorded first, there are two very different versions of the song recorded during the OK Computer sessions.
The OKNOTOK Cassette, released in 2017, included a demo of the song with a sparse piano instrumental.
In 2019, 16 hours of demo recordings from the OK Computer sessions leaked online and were later officially released by the band under the name “MiniDiscs (Hacked)”. The track “MD 112” contained a full band version of the song, somewhat similar to their early live performances of the song.
Both of these versions include a third verse not present in the final release.
- 2.Kid A
- 5.Treefingers
- 6.Optimistic
- 7.In Limbo
- 8.Idioteque
- 9.Morning Bell
- 10.Motion Picture Soundtrack
- 11.Untitled
- 13.Pyramid Song
- 16.I Might Be Wrong
- 17.Knives Out
- 20.Hunting Bears
- 24.Untitled v1
- 27.Follow Me Around
- 29.Untitled v2
- 31.Pyramid Strings
- 32.Alt. Fast Track
- 33.Untitled v3
