“Give Up the Ghost” is an acoustic, guitar-led call-and-response that finds Yorke piling falsettos into a gorgeously ramshackle wall of harmony.
[Intro]
Don't hurt me, don't hurt me
Don't hurt me, don't hurt me
Don't hurt me
[Verse 1]
Gather up the lost and their souls (Don't hurt me)
Into your arms (Don't hurt me)
Into your arms (Don't hurt me)
Gather up the pitiful (Don't hurt me, don't hurt me)
Into your arms (Don't hurt me)
Into your arms (Don't hurt me)
Into your arms (Don't hurt me)
Into your arms (Don't hurt me)
[Verse 2]
(Into your arms)
What seems impossible (Don't hurt me, don't hurt me)
Into your arms (Don't hurt me)
(Into your arms) (Don't hurt me)
(Into your arms)
I think I have had my fill (Don't hurt me, don't hurt me)
Into your arms (Don't hurt me)
Into your arms (Don't hurt me)
Into your arms (Don't hurt me)
Into your arms (Don't hurt me)
I think I should give up the ghost (Don't hurt me, don't hurt me)
Into your arms (Into your arms) (Don't hurt me, don't hurt me)
[Outro]
Into your arms (Don't hurt me)
Into your arms (Don't hurt me)
Into your arms (Don't hurt me)
Into your arms (Don't hurt me)
Into your arms (Don't hurt me)
Into your arms (Don't hurt me)
Into your arms (Don't hurt me)
Into your arms (Don't hurt me)
Into your arms (Don't hurt me)
Into your arms (Don't hurt me)
Give Up the Ghost was written by Philip Selway & Ed O’Brien & Colin Greenwood & Jonny Greenwood & Thom Yorke.
Give Up the Ghost was produced by Nigel Godrich.
Radiohead released Give Up the Ghost on Fri Feb 18 2011.