Radiohead Songs - The Gloaming Lyrics

Radiohead - The Gloaming

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Album: Hail To The Thief
Released: 2003

The Gloaming Lyrics

Genie let out the bottle
It is now the witching hour
Genie let out the bottle
It is now the witching hour

Murderers you're murderers
We are not the same as you

Genie let out the bottle
Funny ha ha funny how

When the walls bend
When the walls bend
With your breathing
With your breathing

When the walls bend
When the walls bend
With your breathing
With your breathing
With your breathing

They will suck you down
To the other side
They will suck you down
To the other side
They will suck you down
To the other side
They will suck you down
To the other side

To the shadows blue and red
To the shadows blue and red
Your alarm bells
Your alarm bells

To the shadows blue and red
To the shadows blue and red
Your alarm bells
Your alarm bells

Should be ringing
This is The Gloaming

Writer/s: YORKE, THOMAS EDWARD / SELWAY, PHILIP JAMES / O'BRIEN, EDWARD JOHN / GREENWOOD, JONATHAN RICHARD GUY / GREENWOOD, COLIN CHARLES
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
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The Gloaming

This song is built entirely around tape loops. There are no real instruments played on this song. The loops sound like broken records with Thom Yorke singing over them.

The alternate title for this track is "Softly Open Our Mouths In The Cold." (thanks, rudi - melbourne, Australia, for above 2)

In an interview with Mojo magazine February 2008, bassist Colin Greenwood admitted that he felt in retrospect that Hail To The Thief should have been pruned of a few tracks including this one: "I didn't want 3 or 4 songs on there, because I thought some of the ideas we were trying out weren't completely finished." He then went on to give "The Gloaming" as an example. "We played it live and it was cool. My brother [Jonny] sampled each of the instruments on stage, cut them up then sent them back into the mix. It was so exciting, like a live DJ show, and Thom performed off of all of that. But it wasn't the same in the studio. For me, Hail To The Thief was more of a holding process, really."

Thom Yorke told the New Musical Express: "I don't know if you have this kind of experience in your job, but in mine, you meet people who have stopped being humans. You see, in an office, there is always an ambitious asshole who just doesn't care if he causes any disservice to anybody and who really thinks he's right to do so. Or if you meet a powerful politician, it's like an empty handshaking. The empty-eyed tornado. The Gloaming, according to me, explores this sick darkness which seems impossible to block." (thanks, Bertrand - Paris, France)