The second single from Radiohead’s second album, The Bends. “High and Dry” was released on a double A-side with the album’s opening track, “Planet Telex.”
[Verse 1]
Two jumps in a week, I bet you
Think that's pretty clever, don't you, boy
Flying on your motorcycle
Watching all the ground beneath you drop
You'd kill yourself for recognition
Kill yourself to never, ever stop
You broke another mirror
You're turning into something you are not
[Chorus]
Don't leave me high
Don't leave me dry
Don't leave me high
Don't leave me dry
[Verse 2]
Drying up in conversation
You will be the one who cannot talk
All your insides fall to pieces
You just sit there wishing you could still make love
They're the ones who'll hate you
When you think you've got the world all sussed out
They're the ones who'll spit at you
You will be the one screaming out
[Chorus]
Don't leave me high
Don't leave me dry
Don't leave me high
Don't leave me dry
[Guitar Solo]
[Bridge]
Oh, it's the best thing that you've ever had
The best thing that you've ever, ever had
It's the best thing that you've ever had
The best thing you've had has gone away
[Chorus]
So don't leave me high
Don't leave me dry
Don't leave me high
Don't leave me dry
Don't leave me high
Don't leave me high
Don't leave me dry
High and Dry was written by Ed O’Brien & Colin Greenwood & Jonny Greenwood & Thom Yorke & Philip Selway.
High and Dry was produced by Radiohead & Jim Warren & John Leckie.
Radiohead released High and Dry on Mon Feb 27 1995.
In a 2007 interview with Pitchfork Media, Yorke stated that he did not like the song, saying “It’s not bad… it’s very bad”. He also stated that he had been pressured into including the song on The Bends.