When you go trew difficult moments and no one seems to understand or even try to understand...That's when you wish you had wings to fly away and not be LET DOWN....
I was diagnosed with cancer. She left when I began chemo. I went through it alone and maintained positive. This song saved my life. Don’t get sentimental… right.
..... I listen to the chorus of this song and I am fervently drawn to one of those rare instances in the labor of the human existence that enables us to open fully the swelling, tragic and beautiful pathway into that crystalline perfection of pure emotional warmth and the tearful, utter and purest expressions of both love and pain we as a species are capable of. I am so, so glad that music affects me this way, and I truly hope it does for everyone as well.
It touches deeply, sincerely and simply. It pretty much describes the feeling of being let down, crushed like a bug in the ground, broken wings, impossible to not get sentimental, this track is pure sentiment.
I've always been fascinated with this song and I can't say how many times I've listened trying to figure out why. First it's a very unconventional song the evokes deep emotion (which I've always expected from Radiohead). 3 movements...In my opinion the drums (primarily) also bass and vocals control the song until 2:30. Prior to that guitar notes are dropping like rain in something of organized chaos. There's a shift at 2:30 where the lone guitar comes then things get pretty electronic in the same organized chaos that has continued throughout. At 3:42 is the first time things get remotely conventional but it's really just all the elements finally synching at which point the vocals really hammer it home. Just one mans opinion and I have no real musical background to aid me with a proper description but 15 years later and I still can't listen to it just once. I don't see that changing anytime soon.
The whole album is near perfection but there was always something about this song in particular that gave off such a unique feeling for me. I think your analysis was great and it made me love this song even more than I did before :') 👍🏻
You made a technical music analysis, but the power of this song is not only the frequency of vibration of the instruments, but the lyrics also. It's a master combination speaking to your soul. Most of Radiohead song's lyric speak about the pain of have to stay in third dimension ...
To everyone insulting Nirvana: Nirvana was one of the bands that influenced Radiohead the most. Nirvana's Nevermind (1991) deeply influenced Radiohead's Pablo Honey and The Bends (1993 & 1995). You must be really stupid to insult Nirvana when you do not know how important Nirvana was for Radiohead's earlier works.
nirvana couldn't even get close to Radiohead's later music. Nirvanas music was formulaic and pretty simplistic. When you listen to the album in rainbows the music in it is class, there is no formula and loads of depth, Its just a whole new experience each time you listen to it.
+lukomundo Nirvana's songs do have a simple structure, but the lyrics are just as deep as Radiohead's songs. In fact, the beauty of grunge comes from the song's simplicity. Radiohead's later music is not as good as their earlier music (The Bends, OK Computer, Kid A). In Rainbows was great, but Amnesiac, Hail to the Thief and The King of Limbs were just ok. OK Computer, regarded as Radiohead's best album, still can't compete against Nevermind. There is still no Radiohead album that can, reallly...
+Cesar Metlich well I guess that is where we disagree, I think nirvana have a more aggressive style that is pretty incomparable, you can't really compare a song like reckoner to a song like in bloom, I was just stating that radioheads style is a lot more complex and the words more profound.
How weird...when i published those lyrics December 10th 2009 it was for one of my friends that i was loosing because we arrived at a point where we took are seperate ways. And I wanted to help her out in a discret way... But today i received another comments of you guys that brought me back here and you know what this song was for me since the beggining...and only today i realize it (3 years later) ! :)
acabo de descubrir hoy esta canción en mi auto, y a pesar de que no entendia toda la letra, me sentia tan deprimente mientras estaba atascado en el tráfico de la ciudad, pero a la vez con algo de esperanza, la canción me llego tanto que hasta casi lloro, es muy hermosa, y pasa directo a mi top de canciones favoritas...
Outstanding imaginative vocabulary, imagery and melodies. Sometimes, lyrics almost convince me of 'spiritual' assistance or channeling. Almost perfect, seemingly effortless and ingenious, gloriously, and beautifully delivered with vocals used like an instrument. Id believe it if told other 'forces' gave assistance. Freddie Mercury and Florence also. Think Enya, Kate bush also, mesmerizing enchanting and mystical. This whole song is as close to perfection as it gets. THIS,is Brit pop at its best. Haunting melancholic and harmonic, still doesn't do it justice. Bravo Thom. 👩🎤🧙
This song could apply to drugs and the enevitable comedown and long years of hellish addiction. I know it's about fallen relationships and pain mainly. Thom Yorke writes some of the saddest/emotional lyrics but many songs have upbeat/progressive melodies that balances the lyrical messages like no other band on the planet. Shout out to Linkin Park too!
I used to like this song a little bit til I payed attention half way through and heard Thom singing "You know where you are" repeatedly and now i've listened to it like 10 times in the past day. Brilliant song !
"Let Down" 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 am gonna 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 gonna grow wings A chemical reaction (You know where you are) Hysterical and useless (You know where you are) Hysterical and (You know where you are) Let down and hanging around Crushed like a bug in the ground Let down and hanging around
estoy bebiendo y en couc.. y puse en la buskeda "let down whith lyrics" Danielle B... que el Señor Dios te bendiga for- e- ver.. gracias a ti y a muchos como tu por hacer la red un lugar bonito donde podemos estar. \m/
You should have heard this on my $7,000 10 speaker/sub Alpine sound system in my Daihatsu Charade back in '97 Mmy GF saidxshe could literally hear me coming from 2kms away The car xould literally shake out nuts and bolts.... I'LL tell you what - you knew you were aive with this "cranked to 11" I have tinititous - i qlso DIG Bose and Sennheiser headphones. up loud. And 59 🥺
Maybe it is, however, as a matter of input, in the official video, he is visiting his girlfriend at the cemetery, and he is ready to kill himself after writing a letter. The spirit of her stops him of doing it, and the end of the video is a fast reverse action of all what he did (driving to the cemetery, writing the letter, etc). That's why the words "One day I am going to grow wings" and then "Let down and hanging around, crushed like a bug into he ground" because he realizes, it is not his time to go yet. Most of Radiohead song lyrics speak about the pain of have to stay here in the third dimension ...
I was diagnosed with cancer. She left when I began chemo. I went through it alone and maintained positive.
This song saved my life.
Don’t get sentimental… right.
Stay strong bro 💪🏼
😢 sending you whatever you need ❤
I was diagnosed with the same thing...in December..this song helps..hugs
@@lucahd7385 i was diagnosed with leukemia and most of my family and friends don't care so I have to learn and just cope with it i guess.
@@lucahd7385 best of luck to you my internet friend🤟🏻☮️
..... I listen to the chorus of this song and I am fervently drawn to one of those rare instances in the labor of the human existence that enables us to open fully the swelling, tragic and beautiful pathway into that crystalline perfection of pure emotional warmth and the tearful, utter and purest expressions of both love and pain we as a species are capable of.
I am so, so glad that music affects me this way, and I truly hope it does for everyone as well.
It touches deeply, sincerely and simply. It pretty much describes the feeling of being let down, crushed like a bug in the ground, broken wings, impossible to not get sentimental, this track is pure sentiment.
This is the most perfect song ever to listen in the radio..
+VB MUTT or on a cd.
The best song to listen in a long trip
One of my top ten all time favorite songs. So perfect in every dimension.
Deepest betrayal in 1998. 'I am going to grow wings'. I eventually grew wings ❤
I've always been fascinated with this song and I can't say how many times I've listened trying to figure out why. First it's a very unconventional song the evokes deep emotion (which I've always expected from Radiohead). 3 movements...In my opinion the drums (primarily) also bass and vocals control the song until 2:30. Prior to that guitar notes are dropping like rain in something of organized chaos. There's a shift at 2:30 where the lone guitar comes then things get pretty electronic in the same organized chaos that has continued throughout. At 3:42 is the first time things get remotely conventional but it's really just all the elements finally synching at which point the vocals really hammer it home. Just one mans opinion and I have no real musical background to aid me with a proper description but 15 years later and I still can't listen to it just once. I don't see that changing anytime soon.
The whole album is near perfection but there was always something about this song in particular that gave off such a unique feeling for me. I think your analysis was great and it made me love this song even more than I did before :') 👍🏻
Yekay yeke Totally agree - this song is somehow uplifting and sad all at once. And the last part from 3:42 onwards - just wow.
You made a technical music analysis, but the power of this song is not only the frequency of vibration of the instruments, but the lyrics also. It's a master combination speaking to your soul. Most of Radiohead song's lyric speak about the pain of have to stay in third dimension ...
+John O'brien very interesting analysis of music you did.
+John O'brien "guitar notes are dropping like rain" ^^^^^This!
We all have ''wings'' :)...But we often forget that we are strong and always able to get trew thoses difficult time!
To everyone insulting Nirvana:
Nirvana was one of the bands that influenced Radiohead the most. Nirvana's Nevermind (1991) deeply influenced Radiohead's Pablo Honey and The Bends (1993 & 1995). You must be really stupid to insult Nirvana when you do not know how important Nirvana was for Radiohead's earlier works.
Totally agree 👍
Nirvana were much more influential than Radiohead..
nirvana couldn't even get close to Radiohead's later music. Nirvanas music was formulaic and pretty simplistic. When you listen to the album in rainbows the music in it is class, there is no formula and loads of depth, Its just a whole new experience each time you listen to it.
+lukomundo Nirvana's songs do have a simple structure, but the lyrics are just as deep as Radiohead's songs. In fact, the beauty of grunge comes from the song's simplicity. Radiohead's later music is not as good as their earlier music (The Bends, OK Computer, Kid A). In Rainbows was great, but Amnesiac, Hail to the Thief and The King of Limbs were just ok. OK Computer, regarded as Radiohead's best album, still can't compete against Nevermind. There is still no Radiohead album that can, reallly...
+Cesar Metlich well I guess that is where we disagree, I think nirvana have a more aggressive style that is pretty incomparable, you can't really compare a song like reckoner to a song like in bloom, I was just stating that radioheads style is a lot more complex and the words more profound.
lukomundo Agreed
I consider this to be an anthem of modernity.
How weird...when i published those lyrics December 10th 2009 it was for one of my friends that i was loosing because we arrived at a point where we took are seperate ways. And I wanted to help her out in a discret way...
But today i received another comments of you guys that brought me back here and you know what this song was for me since the beggining...and only today i realize it (3 years later) !
:)
aw damn man
Wow
acabo de descubrir hoy esta canción en mi auto, y a pesar de que no entendia toda la letra, me sentia tan deprimente mientras estaba atascado en el tráfico de la ciudad, pero a la vez con algo de esperanza, la canción me llego tanto que hasta casi lloro, es muy hermosa, y pasa directo a mi top de canciones favoritas...
bienvenue. je te souhaite de découvrir et d'aimer d'autres chansons de radiohead
One day I am going to grow wings
A chemical reaction
Hysterical and useless
Outstanding imaginative vocabulary, imagery and melodies. Sometimes, lyrics almost convince me of 'spiritual' assistance or channeling. Almost perfect, seemingly effortless and ingenious, gloriously, and beautifully delivered with vocals used like an instrument. Id believe it if told other 'forces' gave assistance. Freddie Mercury and Florence also. Think Enya, Kate bush also, mesmerizing enchanting and mystical. This whole song is as close to perfection as it gets. THIS,is Brit pop at its best. Haunting melancholic and harmonic, still doesn't do it justice. Bravo Thom. 👩🎤🧙
❤
...
This song could apply to drugs and the enevitable comedown and long years of hellish addiction.
I know it's about fallen relationships and pain mainly.
Thom Yorke writes some of the saddest/emotional lyrics but many songs have upbeat/progressive melodies that balances the lyrical messages like no other band on the planet. Shout out to Linkin Park too!
Fucking glorious song.
it's about betrayal on a deep level. he is too good to walk away so he takes more and more on until it changes him into a butterfly.
This has to be one of my all time favorite songs
also mine
LET DOWN AND HANGING AROUND!!!! CRUSHED LIKE A BUG IN THE GROUND!!!!
My favorite song. Ever.
Me too
I used to like this song a little bit til I payed attention half way through and heard Thom singing "You know where you are" repeatedly and now i've listened to it like 10 times in the past day. Brilliant song !
He says you dont know where you are
Woah, surprised you have no comments! Love this song, love Radiohead, thanks for the vid :)
Let it rip
"Let Down"
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 am gonna 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 gonna grow wings
A chemical reaction
(You know where you are)
Hysterical and useless
(You know where you are)
Hysterical and
(You know where you are)
Let down and hanging around
Crushed like a bug in the ground
Let down and hanging around
ahhhh!! this song just stops me from being angry! :p
in a few years these albums will become "classics" - as big as the beatles if not more
Thank you this is nice...love Radiohead, they always seem to hit the depts of my soul.
One of my favorite radiohead songs!!
I listen to this song every time I have hard feelings ,yesterday friend and said goodbye after 9 years:(
This song is so good. ❤️
estoy bebiendo y en couc.. y puse en la buskeda "let down whith lyrics"
Danielle B... que el Señor Dios te bendiga for- e- ver.. gracias a ti y a muchos como tu por hacer la red un lugar bonito donde podemos estar. \m/
Brilliant song, brilliant band
Such a beautiful song, oh that ending. Wow Thom
So... Can someone tell me where the rest of the views are?
On the other one that Communistnihilist posted
all the comments here hit a chord but ya know what... the only word needed for this song is PERFECTION
I love to see my snow man lounging, chilling. Looking at the sky, blowing out a nice rip.
Do you see it?
Very beautifull way to say that life is beautifull, we are fragile so lets not waste time on useless s***
i cried. T_T
I miss my best friend Oky Bastian..where r u bro ?
I love this song and-- for the longest time-- I didn't even realize it was a Radiohead song. What is wrong with me?
You should have heard this on my $7,000 10 speaker/sub Alpine sound system in my Daihatsu Charade back in '97
Mmy GF saidxshe could literally hear me coming from 2kms away
The car xould literally shake out nuts and bolts....
I'LL tell you what - you knew you were aive with this "cranked to 11"
I have tinititous - i qlso DIG Bose and Sennheiser headphones. up loud. And 59 🥺
Beautiful
My flow of this song is about habing a long day and going to a bar but can't explain that people are there to vent away
Because you were there just to have a drink nothing more ..
But people are there to vent away But don't realize people are there to firmly have a drink but yet .. bars are full of deep emotions...carry on
Really nice video! One of their best songs too :)
this song is awesome
Does anyone else understand this brilliant and amazing masterpiece is an analogy from Kafka's book: Metamorphosis? With a "Happy Ending" of course xD
Happy Ending? at most it is a longing
Maybe it is, however, as a matter of input, in the official video, he is visiting his girlfriend at the cemetery, and he is ready to kill himself after writing a letter. The spirit of her stops him of doing it, and the end of the video is a fast reverse action of all what he did (driving to the cemetery, writing the letter, etc). That's why the words "One day I am going to grow wings" and then "Let down and hanging around, crushed like a bug into he ground" because he realizes, it is not his time to go yet. Most of Radiohead song lyrics speak about the pain of have to stay here in the third dimension ...
Like Kafka said, a book should be an axe for the frozen sea within is, this song is the musical equivalent of such a book.
this is cory fav song
its a crushing feeling being let down :'(
The first time i heard this song I jizzed a hole in my pants
Some say it's akin to a religious experience. Bless you in the name of Yorke. When I found out Bruce Willis was dead I...
Three people are clinging onto bottles.
And sleepless night is guaranteed
damn thats awesome. GReat verse development each time.
Gracias y le deseo el mejor.
May the Ether be with you, Tom.
Nirvana or any other bands can never deliver such deep emotion and deep meanings
Don't compare apple with peaches
@@MaviNK apples and oranges
es Radiohead la major banda del mundo de todos los tiempos el universe el infinito y mas alla?... la respuesta es contundente: SI
Si!
Thank you
thought he said 'crushed like a bargain hunter'
will I be able to grow wings one day?
❤
nice one.
no dislikes :)
And after 6 months it's the same...:)
look at the number of people you helped! Thank you Danielle13421
Don't get sentimental
1 person was let down
Maybe that one is the most sad person in this world, please don't judge.
Marci :(
one day
what the hell does nirvana have to do with anything?
Didn't mean to make you cry... :) !
nahh not suicide just wake up reality knocking song:)
song is better when you cant read the lyrics..
Josh Klinghoffer music sounds similar to this band hmmmm
🤕
Someone had to ruin it...
whats ya point of this sentence
This song is so good. ❤️
The first time i heard this song I jizzed a hole in my pants
+Venomous Watermelon me too and they werent even my friggin pants!
Haha sometimes Radiohead costs more than the CD,you pay 10-15$ for the CD,then 10-15$ for an extra pair of pants