Let me turn and follow you and never be the same. In ConclusionĪnd, we’ll just leave at that with this analysis. Indeed, it wouldn’t be totally out of the way to speculate that maybe one of the reasons this song wasn’t released until now, as part of an anniversary event, is because it was never actually finished. Or put differently, it’s hard to come to a conclusion as to whom the “you” who is tailing and even, as implied in the second verse, threatening the vocalist actually is. to reshape the world around through my sight and touch and sound in you, and you in me Lord, your summons echoes true when you but call my name.

Thus the addressee can be said to be one side of his persona. But then, with that aforementioned Tony Blair reference, the understanding changes.Īnd now, it may be that he’s actually alluding to, say the government surveilling him. But either way, it can be said that Thom doesn’t appreciate the constant presence of whoever it is ‘following him around’. A kind of conflict involving the singer’s “former self” versus what he has become since. stalking him, if you will.Īnd during the first half of the song in particular, it reads as if this may be an inner conflict. the addressee, ‘following’ the narrator “around”, i.e. Blair.īut that noted, this song doesn’t necessarily read as if it is based on such a topic throughout. In fact it is very metaphorical, with the most-discernible aspect of the narrative, as alluded to in the title, being the idea of someone, i.e. Tony Blair, being the turn-of-the-century Prime Minister of the UK, as part and parcel of his position was not loved by everyone. And let’s just say from an artistic standpoint, well, this song was actually recorded when he was still in power. And Radiohead, as far as fellow Britons go, were amongst the musicians who possessed a particularly notable disdain for Mr.

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