According to the New York Times, Yorke’s inspirations for “Bodysnatchers” include Victorian ghost stories, The Stepford Wives, and a feeling of ‘your physical consciousness trapped without being able to connect fully with anything else.’
It is a narrative about monotonous boring lives, where one do...
[Verse 1]
I do not
Understand
What it is
I've done wrong
Full of holes
Check for pulse
Blink your eyes
One for yes
Two for no
[Chorus]
I have no idea what I am talking about
I am trapped in this body and can't get out
[Verse 2]
You killed the sound
Removed backbone
A pale imitation
With the edges sawn off
[Chorus]
I have no idea what you are talking about
Your mouth moves only with someone's hand up your arse
[Bridge]
Has the light gone out for you?
Because the light's gone out for me
It is the twenty-first century
It is the twenty-first century
It can follow you like a dog
It brought me to my knees
They got a skin and they put me in
They got a skin and they put me in
On the lines wrapped 'round my face
On the lines wrapped 'round my face
And for anyone else to see
And for anyone else to see
I'm a lie
[Outro]
I've seen it coming
They've seen it coming
They've seen it coming
They've seen it coming
Bodysnatchers was written by Philip Selway & Colin Greenwood & Jonny Greenwood & Ed O’Brien & Thom Yorke.
Bodysnatchers was produced by Nigel Godrich.
Radiohead released Bodysnatchers on Wed Oct 10 2007.