The very lows of what it’s like to be romantically involved with someone suffering from mental illness – the one most sane is likely to use scapegoats and half-measures in whatever tension arises to make it another day without any extreme and violent conflict.
Eventually, the protagonist separates...
[Verse 1]
I get home from work
And you're still standing in your dressing gown
Well, what am I to do?
I know all the things around your head
And what they do to you
[Pre-Chorus 1]
What are we coming to?
What are we gonna do?
[Chorus]
Blame it on the black star
Blame it on the falling sky
Blame it on the satellite
That beams me home
[Verse 2]
The troubled words of a troubled mind
I try to understand what is eating you
I try to stay awake, but it's fifty-eight hours
Since that I last slept with you
[Pre-Chorus 2]
What are we coming to?
I just don't know anymore
[Chorus]
Blame it on the black star
Blame it on the falling sky
Blame it on the satellite
That beams me home
[Verse 3]
I get on the train and I just stand about
Now that I don't think of you
I keep falling over, I keep passing out
When I see a face like you
[Pre-Chorus 3]
What am I coming to?
I'm gonna melt down
[Chorus]
Blame it on the black star
Blame it on the falling sky
Blame it on the satellite
That beams me home
[Outro]
Ah, this is killing me
Ah, this is killing me
Black Star was written by Philip Selway & Ed O’Brien & Jonny Greenwood & Colin Greenwood & Thom Yorke.
Black Star was produced by John Leckie & Nigel Godrich.
Radiohead released Black Star on Mon Mar 13 1995.