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Paranoid Android

Параноик Андроид

Please could you stop the noise, I’m trying to get some rest
From all the unborn chicken voices in my head
What’s that? (I may be paranoid, but not an android)
What’s that? (I may be paranoid, but not an android)

When I am king, you will be first against the wall
With your opinion which is of no consequence at all
What’s that? (I may be paranoid, but no android)
What’s that? (I may be paranoid, but no android)

Ambition makes you look pretty ugly
Kicking, squealing Gucci little piggy

You don’t remember
You don’t remember
Why don’t you remember my name?
Off with his head, man
Off with his head, man
Why don’t you remember my name?
I guess he does

Rain down, rain down
Come on rain down on me
From a great height
From a great height
Height
Rain down, rain down
Come on rain down on me
From a great height
From a great height
Height

That’s it sir, you’re leaving (Rain down)
The crackle of pigskin (Rain down)
The dust and the screaming (Come on rain down)
The yuppies networking (On me)
The panic, the vomit (From a great height)
The panic, the vomit (From a great height)
God loves his children
God loves his children, yeah

Тише, не шуми, дай мне отдохнуть
От нерожденных шумов хочу я вздремнуть.
Что же это? (Возможно я параноик, но я не андроид)
Что же это? (Возможно я параноик, но я не андроид)

Когда я король, ты один у стены,
Ведь мысли твои чужим не равны.
Что же это? (Возможно я параноик, но я не андроид)
Что же это? (Возможно я параноик, но я не андроид)

От амбиций страшно смотришься,
Одевшись в Гуччи, свиньей становишься.

Ты не помнишь,
Ты не помнишь,
Почему ты не помнишь мое имя?
Крышу сорвало, чувак,
Крышу сорвало, чувак,
Почему ты не помнишь мое имя?
Я надеюсь, он вспомнит.

Дождь падает, падает дождь,
Падает дождь на меня.
С большой высоты,
С большой высоты,
С высоты.
Дождь падает, падает дождь,
Падает дождь на меня.
С большой высоты,
С большой высоты,
С высоты.

Что же, сэр, вы уходите? (падает дождь)
Треснула шкура (падает дождь)
Дымка и крики (ну, пролейся, дождь)
Яппи сети плетут(надо мной)
Паника и рвота (с большой высоты)
Паника и рвота (с большой высоты)
Бог любит своих детей,
Бог любит своих детей, да

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Paranoid Android Lyrics

RADIOHEAD

Please could you stop the noise, I’m trying to get some rest
From all the unborn chicken voices in my head
What’s that. (I may be paranoid, but not an android)
What’s that. (I may be paranoid, but not an android)

When I am king, you will be first against the wall
With your opinion which is of no consequence at all
What’s that. (I may be paranoid, but no android)
What’s that. (I may be paranoid, but no android)

Ambition makes you look pretty ugly
Kicking and squealing gucci little piggy
You don’t remember
You don’t remember
Why don’t you remember my name?
Off with his head, man

Off with his head, man
Why don’t you remember my name?
I guess he does.

Rain down, rain down
Come on rain down on me
From a great height
From a great height. height.
Rain down, rain down
Come on rain down on me
From a great height
From a great height. height.
Rain down, rain down
Come on rain down on me

TThat’s it, sir
You’re leaving
The crackle of pigskin
The dust and the screaming
The yuppies networking
The panic, the vomit
The panic, the vomit
God loves his children, God loves his children, yeah!

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Songwriter(s): Philip James Selway, Edward John O’brien, Jonathan Richard Guy Greenwood, Thomas Edward Yorke, Colin Charles Greenwood
Record Label(s): 1997 The copyright in this sound recording is owned by EMI Records Ltd
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Song Released: 1997

Paranoid Android Lyrics

Please could you stop the noise, I’m tryin’ to get some rest
From all the unborn chicken voices in my head

What’s that?
(I may be paranoid, but no android)
What’s that?
(I may be paranoid, but no android)

When I am king, you will be.

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I dont’ know the book of Douglas Adams, but it makes perfect sense that the title to the song is related to Marvin.

In my opinion, the song refers to a severely depressed individual who feels that he is starting becaming paranoid and is excibiting psychotic symptoms («from all the voices of unborn chicken in my head»). He is finding it difficult to bear reality, with all the injuctise and materialism which makes him feel disgusted.

Like Marvin, he is asked to live like an android, without judjement, without opinion, well below the level of his real intellectual capabilities. Just living and following like a robot. However, his is not willing to do so («I may be paranoid but I am not android»). In his fantasy, in a world where he will be the king, reality will be reversed and the people which he now hates will be the first to be executed.

Maybe in a way, his «paranoia» gives him an excuse to express his opposition, in a way no sane man would be allowed to do, without facing consequences.

In the last two paragraphs, he asks for a solution to all the confusion and madness which surrounds him. «God loves his children» and He will either relieve them from their sufferings or understand and forgive for whatever they do because of them.

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Phew, it’s hard to give a straight interpretation on this. It seems clear that the lyrics were written while reading the mentioned Douglas Adams Book. (The hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy Part I-V, the BOOK, not the movie) Maybe it is about what is going on in Marvins’ head. He is a really depressed robot, his emotion chips are malfunctioning and he seems to bear the tragic of the whole universe. The «rain down» sequence is a dream of being released from existence. The backing vocals in this sequence remind me of a stewardess talking to flight passenger, a theme that also occurs in the mentioned book. Like if somebody leaves life and everything that torured the person is mentioned again. Or like you die and your life which consisted of nothing but depression passes you by in a short sequence, in this case not as a movie but satirically being spoken by a stewardess. «God loves his children» to somebody like «Marvin» must mean that life is not eternal is a proof for the love of god (who in the book is the cat of the universe’s regent). In the book you also find god’s last message to his creation. It’s like a message to those who only suffer from life. «We apologize for the inconvenience». The first part gives a few examples on how «Marvin» gets treated and what he thinks of the world and the beings around him. Actually this is really great stuff, lots of double and triple satire. If you know the books of Adams you will understand what I mean.

To me this song is about how technology, specifically the internet (The yuppies networking) can make a human lose his humanity and send him into madness. The technology gives the man a false sense of power and entitlement, represented by all the references to King and God. The man at first thinks that he is in control, but then he realized that it is actually the technology controlling him. The technology is God, the technology is King. This control leads to the man losing his sanity and eventually dying. This might be totally wrong though, as this song’s lyrics are so complicated and crazy. For me though, I have to believe that somehow this song relates to man’s relationship with technology.

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Paranoid Android

Radiohead

About Paranoid Android

«Paranoid Android» is a song by the English alternative rock band Radiohead, released as the lead single from their third studio album OK Computer (1997) on 26 May 1997. The lyrics were written by singer Thom Yorke following an unpleasant experience in a Los Angeles bar. The song is over six minutes long and contains four sections. «Paranoid Android» takes its name from Marvin the Paranoid Android of Douglas Adams series The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Released as the lead single from OK Computer, «Paranoid Android» charted at number three on the UK Singles Chart. It was well received by music critics. The track has appeared regularly on lists of the best songs of all time, including Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. Its animated music video, directed by Magnus Carlsson, was placed on heavy rotation on MTV, although the network censored portions containing nudity in the US. At the 1998 Brit Awards, the song was nominated for Best British Single. The track has been covered by artists in a variety of genres. It was included in the 2008 Radiohead: The Best Of. more »

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Radiohead are an English rock band from Abingdon, Oxfordshire, formed in 1985. The band consists of Thom Yorke (lead vocals, guitar, piano), Jonny Greenwood (lead guitar, keyboards, other instruments), Colin Greenwood (bass), Phil Selway (drums, percussion) and Ed O’Brien (guitar, backing vocals). more »

Written by: Colin Charles Greenwood, Edward John O’Brien, Jonathan Richard Guy Greenwood, Philip James Selway, Thomas Edward Yorke

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Paranoid Android

Radiohead

Please could you stop the noise
I’m trying to get some rest
From all the unborn chicken voices in my head
What’s that?
What’s that?

When I am king, you will be first against the wall
With your opinion which is of no consequence at all
What’s that?
What’s that?

Ambition makes you look pretty ugly
Kicking, squealing Gucci little piggy
You don’t remember
You don’t remember
Why don’t you remember my name?
Off with his head, man
Off with his head, man
Why don’t you remember my name?
I guess he does
Oh oh oh
Oh oh oh
Oh oh oh
Oh oh oh

Rain down, rain down
Come on rain down on me
From a great height
From a great height, height
Rain down, rain down
Come on, rain down on me
From a great height
From a great height
Rain down, rain down (that’s it, sir, you’re leaving, the crackle of pigskin)
Come on rain down on me (the dust and the screaming, the yuppies networking)
From a great height (the panic, the vomit, the panic, the vomit)
God loves his children
God loves his children, yeah

Paranoid Android Lyrics as written by Edward John O’brien Colin Charles Greenwood

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Song Meaning«when i am king you will be first against the wall
with your opinion which is of no consequence at all «

this phrase is coming from hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy, like song’s name.
you probably know that song’s name is coming from Marvin The Paranoid Android, who is a character in this book. in story, Marvin (paranoid android) is the first robot that is created by a Sirius Cybernetics Corporation. And marvin hates this Corporation, because they created him.

And; in Guide, this Corporation is defined as «a bunch of mindless jerks who’ll be the first against the wall when the revolution comes».

so, in my opininon, thom yorke speaks to God when he says «when i am king you will be first against the wall, with your opinion which is of no consequence at all».

General CommentI think in tying the lyrics together to mean one thing creates a violent allegory where the victim finally exacts revenge on his tormentors while mocking their beliefs and their traits.
One interpretation I get from it is the outsider who watches the upper-class born-again jocks with disgust and mocks them until the outsider decides to make them pay for their hypocrisy. The person fears for his safety daily, but still refuses to assimilate and therefore will remain an outsider (I am paranoid, but not an android).

So this person comes in with a gun and comes after this tormentor and everyone does what he says because he’s got a gun (When I am king, you will be first against the wall). The jock-type tells him, «I do really like you.» but his opinion is no longer of any consequence. So then the jock-type begs for his life, a kicking, squealing gucci little piggie. Perhaps this jock-type has called the singer names and never called him by his rightful name, and this angers the singer (You don’t remember, you don’t remember, why don’t you remember my name
Off with his head man, off with his head man
Why don’t you remember my name?), but now that the tormentor has a gun pointed at him he is using his name (I guess he does).
The rain down part would be where you would see in slow motion the victim pulling the trigger or making that final decision to go beyond the point of no return and the second time you hear this is when the victim is actually shooting the person and maybe these are the things that are playing in his head or it could be all of those memories of being tormented flooding back into his mind while he is making that brutal decision:
(That’s it sir, you’re leaving) the decision to through with it and take this person’s life
(the crackle of pig skin) pigskin a reference to football, maybe deflating a football (player)?
(the dust and the screaming) the bullet passing through the person and hitting the wall behind making some plaster fall and the screaming people when they see the murder
(The yuppies networking) the rest of the people fleeing
(the panic, the vomit) People panicking, maybe getting sick from seeing the gore or the jock-type’s body losing its muscle control or the panic of the shot person causing him to become physically ill
(God loves his children) mocking this person’s religion by saying «How will your beliefs save you now?» or mocking his belief that he is a religious person and therefore one of God’s children and now look at him
-OR-
This shooter believes he is doing God’s work by eliminating this person
-OR-
In God’s creation he also created ugly things like panic and vomit and so it mocks just how much God loves His children to give them such awful things.

Of course, I could be wrong.

Pig-skin definitely isn’t a reference to a handegg, as Radiohead are all British, and we really don’t use the term to refer to a football either. Some of your interpretation looks pretty supported though. It’s important to bear in mind when analysing any British text that where Americans have things like jocks, British people have class-castes, so think of this as a class difference and someone being excluded as a result (fits with him used the line ‘that’s it sir’).

For my part, i think the final paragraph is more ideation than it is something actually happening. Fits with the sense of impotent and subdued rage throughout the album.

I also feel like this is someone who is in a lower societal situation, «stop the noise im trying to get some rest» I believe refers to someone getting picked on put down bullied

when the lyric goes screaming gucci little piggy (it’s referencing the gucci clothing line meaning rich people so maybe rich people were picking on him for being poor or different.

The song tempo changes drastically in a few parts

the first part is shy and has a lot of avoidance some light speaking up but almost like a whisper, even how Yorke sings it, it’s like that

The next part is almost as if he’s speaking under his breath like he’s charging up to lose control

then the tempo becomes very filled with rage and this is when he loses it and fights back with your example of a gun that is a great example. why don’t you remember my name oh i guess you do as if he was holding a gun to someones head yelling whats my name.

then the next part (rain down) I think is almost a religious experiance for him, where he is so fulfilled by his finally getting back at his bullies. That or he’s taunting God since he says great heights rain down your judgment but I think it’s the previous

Then the next part is very literal he does something to make his enemies (pigskin) crackle and saying your leaving he’s probally killing him or something to that extent, Everyone else is watching and telling people whats happening calling the police etc etc (the yuppies networking)

Then the God loves his children I think is about his anger towards God for putting him in such a crappy situation where he was viewed as so much less then other people and how God really doesen’t love him but that I may be wrong in.

Overall I love your explanation and I feel pretty much the same way

General CommentOkay, other opinions notwithstanding, you could nail this entire song to Marvin from HHGTG as being a part of his mental state. It’s his entire life.

Marvin’s demise comes during a rainstorm on a miserable planet whilst reading the last message from God, which was: We Apologise For The Inconvenience.

Marvin’s opinion of the corporation that built him was that when the revolution came, they would be first against the wall.

In HHGTG there is a breed of pig who can talk and whose sole ambition is to be eaten.

Marvin, being depressed, never thinks much of other people’s opinions, most specifically because he’s smarter than everyone else. he has the brain the size of a planet.

But I think it’s the ‘rain down’ bit that clinches it, or maybe it’s a complete coincidence that they have described Marvin’s demise, with the last line being, ‘God loves his children.’

From Douglas Adams’ pen, Marvin is a sadly comedic creature who is born depressed, lives for about 40 billion years (30 million of which are spent parking cars), and only moments before he dies he has his only positive thought.

That’s Adams’ part. Radiohead have seen Marvin as the perfect metaphor for trying to live the quiet life, just get along, but is constantly placed up against life and all of it’s messiness.

Anyway, that’s my take.

General Commenti dont think there is any definitive meaning in this song, more of a collection of feelings and thoughts.

«Ambition makes you look pretty ugly
Kicking, squealing, Gucci little piggy»

i think refers to clubgoers,yuppies and general people who hide from reality behind materialstic , self possession, self status lifestyles.

«Rain down, rain down, come on rain down on me
From a great height, from a great height, height
Rain down, rain down, come on rain down on me
From a great height, from a great height, height «

someone who has led an un human life , hiding from reality, living behind shadows, but finally comes to realize what he has become and wants the rain from above to wash his sins away and cleanse his spirit

«When I am king you will be first against the wall
With your opinion which is of no consequence at all
What’s that, what’s that?»

maybe refers to people who have put him down through life and told him he wasn going to be anything and he wasn going to succeed

On the other hand thats only what i think, what i relate to. I think different people will find different meanings and somewhat personally relate to the lyrics and so come the conlusion on what they think the lyrics mean.
Really interesting though looking at other peoples analogies.

Song Meaningthe «rain down» section doesn’t have some obscure meaning. in the original, pre-record version, the «rain down» sections lyrics were «rain down, rain down, come on rain down on me, from a great height, from a great. hallelujah, hallelujah (repeat)» and ends with «amen»

it is a desperate prayer by a desperate man. how this section is structured and sung also provides meaning. the choral background vocals are to give the feeling or represent munk/religious choir vocals, and thom yorke wails the lyrics, almost as though he’s crying or on the verge of breaking down.

it is the emotional climax of the song; the narrator is desperate and making a plea to a god that doesn’t appear to be real. the final lyric «god loves his children, yeah» is sung with a very sarcastic/biting tone, alluding to the disenchanted and skeptical nature of the narrator.

i believe the «rain down» section is one of the best pieces of music ever recorded.

@entropath It is up there. When I run the endorphins have begun to hit. The darkness hits in an uplifting way.

Exit Music for a Film is where you really start to feel it. Uplifting and dark but with endorphins Give it a try sometime dude just run to OK Computer and try to keep a pace until Lucky. Running to this type of music is underrated as a drug.

Song Meaning“Paranoid Android”, by Radiohead, is a rather straight-forward song about sorrow; the kind which develops from isolation. However, because the song uses abstract imagery and manages to tell two, overlapping narratives with only one set of lyrics, the song is ripe for lyrical analysis. Literally, this is a classic tale of insanity. Figuratively, and the meaning you’re more likely to connect with, “Android” is a requiem for the outcast; for the leftfield perspective.

The notion of wanting to get some rest in a noisy environment is something we all can relate with, but the outcast of “Paranoid Android” is pleading; begging to fall asleep, because his head is filled with “unborn chicken voices”. This can seem confusing until the line is read literally – imagine that there are actually chickens inside this man’s head. “Unborn,” in this context, is a clever way of saying “non-existent”; not actually real. He simply hears noises in his head, and the syncopated call of a chicken is a perfect image to express the chaos of auditory hallucination.

In another sense, these voices in his head are not in his head at all, but actually the sounds of the world around him (with which he feels such disconnect). The outcast cannot view society as a screaming success because his senses are overwhelmed with the literal screaming of the oppressed; the crack of the metaphoric whip, keeping everyone at work (“the crackle of pigskin”); overwhelming gluttony (“the crackle of pigskin” i.e. bacon); the panic of the chased; the vomit from those who witness it all and of course, those too busy making money to care (“the yuppies networking”). The outcast begs it all to stop, because he’s simply trying to get some rest.

As if a nagging reminder to his insanity and his disconnect, the promise of a peaceful sleep is lost; replaced by literal paranoia (“What’s that?”). Already so broken-down, the only way this outcast can cope is to escape to a dreamlike state; to imagine an alternate reality where he is in command, persecuting everyone who has ever wronged him (“When I am King, you will be first against the wall — where your opinion is of no consequence at all”).

Unfortunately, due to what’s been bubbling under the surface, what should be a pleasant daydream turns into a manic episode. Rather playful, optimistic longing is replaced with aggressive force. As if he’s shaking the collar of society itself, he screams, “You don’t remember! You don’t remember my name!” Now, he’s in control and is using his power to get back at his enemies – “Off with his head now; off with his head!!”

Unfortunately, the mania subsides and is replaced with a calming, static depression. He’s back to the real world and his fantasy is just that – a fantasy. The difference is, there’s no going back. Perhaps in the intensity of his manic episode, he has broken a law or two, for now passersby are scorning and ridiculing him for his insanity. “Off with his head now!!” is both a mantra yelled at society and the actual response of society to the outcast’s madness.

A crowd draws and he’s told, “That’s it now — you’re leaving,” but he refuses to give-in; instead fighting back and running away (“the dust and the screaming”). The police presumably catch him, but not before he is beaten (“the crackle of pigskin”), shrieking in terror as the walls of his world cave-in (“the screaming”). All the while, this is taking place in public, with businessmen and women rushing past, far too busy making phone calls to stop and observe (“yuppies networking”).

It is here where Yorke sings with a cruel jest, “God loves his children.” It is here where the literal story of a man going crazy and the casual observations of the modern cynic merge. In the literal narrative, this line is a delusional self-assurance, muttered by the outcast as he’s hauled away. In the figurative narrative, the cynical observer is mocking the idea of “God” with a bitter sarcasm: “God loves his children,” as if to say, why would anyone Godly waste their attention on this hellish world? Regardless atheistic implications, this line is important because it shows how both the outcast and the observer have lost all hope.

In the chaos of literal arrest (or the figurative personal disconnect felt towards society), the outcast gives in. The reason we know the outcast is too tired to fight is because the song starts off with “I’m trying to get some rest,” as if to imply that if protagonist does not recover soon, he will not have the will to continue. With no hope in sight, the outcast proclaims, “let it all rain down on me — let it pour from a great height, far up in the sky.” As if lithium intravenously entered into his bloodstream, our lonesome friend has found peace (even if in defeat).

“Paranoia Android” holds up a mirror to our world and asks us if we’re okay with the resultant image. As if to justify the abstract nature of this song, we hear a robotic voice chanting, “I may be paranoid, but I’m not an android.” In other words, the outcast might have been seen as eccentric; perhaps even paranoid for no reason, but at least he was feeling something.

re-wrote the last paragraph:

As if to justify the abstract nature of this song, we hear a robotic voice chanting, “I may be paranoid, but I’m not an android.” In other words, the outcast might have been seen as eccentric; perhaps even paranoid for no reason, but at least he was feeling something. The beauty of this song is that once you understand the general narrative, all the abstract imagery can be applied to a multitude of concepts, all seen from the observer / the outcast’d perspective. This outcast is holding up a mirror to our world, but before he can even ask if we’re okay with the resultant image, he loses his mind.

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