Cover art for Where Bluebirds Fly by Radiohead

Where Bluebirds Fly

Radiohead
Track 16 on Hail to the Thief (Collectors Edition) 

Producers

Radiohead & Nigel Godrich
These lyrics are from ‘Somewhere Over the Rainbow’ from the 1939 Wizard of Oz. The original is a beautiful song wishing of a better place. However, this version turns the… Read More 
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Where Bluebirds Fly Lyrics

[Verse]
Somewhere over the rainbow
Way up high
And the dreams that you dreamed of
Once in a lullaby
Somewhere over the rainbow
Blue birds fly
And the dreams that you dreamed of
Dreams really do come true
Someday I'll wish upon a star
Wake up where the clouds are far behind me
Where trouble melts like lemon drops
High above the chimney tops that's where you'll find me
Oh somewhere over the rainbow, bluebirds fly
And the dream that you dare to, oh why, oh why can't I?

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These lyrics are from ‘Somewhere Over the Rainbow’ from the 1939 Wizard of Oz. The original is a beautiful song wishing of a better place.

However, this version turns the soft melodies into harsh electronic beats The somber and moaning vocals are layered on top of each other, leaving the lyrics barely understandable. It’s almost ironic, showing how life has become so much more complicated, society more pressurizing, expectations higher than ever, the way that money rules the world. An average person’s ‘over the rainbow’ utopia is very different than the one described by Judy Garland.

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Hail to the Thief (Collectors Edition) (2009)
  1. 1.
    2 + 2 = 5
  2. 2.
    Sit Down. Stand Up.
  3. 3.
    Sail to the Moon
  4. 4.
    Backdrifts
  5. 5.
    Go to Sleep
  6. 6.
    Where I End and You Begin
  7. 7.
    We Suck Young Blood
  8. 8.
    The Gloaming
  9. 9.
    There, There
  10. 10.
    I Will
  11. 11.
    A Punchup at a Wedding
  12. 12.
    Myxomatosis
  13. 13.
    Scatterbrain
  14. 14.
    A Wolf at the Door
  15. 15.
    Paperbag Writer
  16. 16.
    Where Bluebirds Fly
  17. 17.
    I Am Citizen Insane.
  18. 18.
    Fog (Again) - Live
  19. 19.
    Gagging Order
  20. 20.
    I Am A Wicked Child.
  21. 21.
    Remyxomatosis (Cristian Vogel RMX).
  22. 22.
    There There (First Demo).
  23. 23.
    Skttrbrain (Four Tet RMX).
  24. 24.
    I Will (Los Angeles Version).
  25. 25.
    Sail to the Moon. (Jo Whiley Show - 28/05/03)
  26. 26.
    2 + 2 = 5 (Live at Earls Court, London, 26/11/03)
  27. 27.
    Go to Sleep. (Zane Lowe - 8/12/03)
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Vocals
Released on
March 24, 2004
Where Bluebirds Fly Interpolations
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RockGlitchUKExperimentalElectronicIDM
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