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Tuesday, June 28, 2005

RADIOHEAD - Fitter Happier Lyrics

Does your life feel like this?

more productive
comfortable
not drinking too much
regular exercise at the gym (3 days a week)
getting on better with your associate employee contemporaries
at ease
eating well (no more microwave dinners and saturated fats)
a patient better driver
a safer car (baby smiling in back seat)
sleeping well (no bad dreams)
no paranoia
careful to all animals (never washing spiders down the plughole)
keep in contact with old friends (enjoy a drink now and then)
will frequently check credit at (moral) bank (hole in wall)
favours for favours
fond but not in love
charity standing orders
on sundays ring road supermarket
(no killing moths or putting boiling water on the ants)
car wash (also on sundays)
no longer afraid of the dark
or midday shadows
nothing so ridiculously teenage and desperate
nothing so childish
at a better pace
slower and more calculated
no chance of escape
now self-employed
concerned (but powerless)
an empowered and informed member of society (pragmatism not
idealism)
will not cry in public
less chance of illness
tires that grip in the wet (shot of baby strapped in back seat)
a good memory
still cries at a good film
still kisses with saliva
no longer empty and frantic
like a cat
tied to a stick
that's driven into
frozen winter shit (the ability to laugh at weakness)
calm
fitter, healthier and more productive
a pig
in a cage
on antibiotics

I think I do sometimes, I think most Americans feel this way, spending all their free time working over time.
Just so that we can obtain or just maintain the American dream. The American Dream has become the American Nightmare. A self serving exhistance that puts it's faith in good credit, a 9-5 job and a new car.

American Christianity has become about praying to God so that he will provide the means to sustain a meaningless exhistance of consumerism . "Put your money in the miracle barrel, pull out a miracle."
And when we feel as though God is not listening to our requests for material things we assume he is powerless. God cares more about you than your bank account, a relationship with him should not depend on your bank statement.

3 Comments:

Blogger Bradley Herring said...

I've always felt that album was more political than most people gave it credit for. And that song is a really brutal attack on modern life. It speaks to me of something really sick and depraved under the surface of everyone pretending to lead "normal" lives. And I don't think that could be more true.

7/10/2005 10:54 PM

 
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