“Daily Battles” is an original song written by Radiohead lead singer Thom Yorke for the film Motherless Brooklyn, Edward Norton’s directorial debut. Norton, being a friend of Yorke’s, asked Yorke to write a song for the film, and the song was adapted into an instrumental cover by jazz musician Wynto...
The lines are drawn
For daily battles
Trumpet sound
For daily troubles
Lock your dreams away
You're waking up
Enough about
Your broken heart
You're on parade
For daily battles
The other side
It has no face
Upon its cause
We can't remember
Enough about
Your broken heart
The lines are drawn
For daily battles
An argument
I cannot start
Lock your dreams away
You're waking up
Enough about
Your broken heart
Daily Battles was written by Flea & Thom Yorke.
Daily Battles was produced by Edward Norton.
Thom Yorke & Flea released Daily Battles on Wed Aug 21 2019.
Edward Norton, the director of the film the song is from, told Rolling Stone about asking Thom to write the song for the film.
“I wanted Thom to write an old-world melancholy ballad, and I wanted his voice to be the properties for [Norton’s character] Lionel’s voice….It’s so instantly heartbreaking...