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• lifeistao 0 points 2010-08-26 20:47

  What I'm about to say is not a criticism, instead, it is an observation and appreciation of inspirations between musicians and artists.

  If one has been following Bjork's music though out, you can hear Bjork's use of electronic and computer instruments in Thom's experiments as well, so does his singing style in terms of prolonging single word with multiple tones. Thom has openly admired Bjork's artistry in music achievement in originality and creativity.

  But Thom's creativity and originality thrives from being inspired, he borrows the paints and make them into his own art piece and own expression, this is why my admiration goes all the way out to him. He takes his art very seriously with fun and open mind.

• julia 0 points 2009-05-16 05:28

  you can hear that he's saying "fucked up" if you blast it
  as i do :]

• libelle 0 points 2009-01-01 08:37

  Problem is thom doesn't finish words, he draws them out and then they trail off, i think this is where a lot of misheard lyrics come from.
  From Wikipedia: The Black Swan theory (in Nassim Nicholas Taleb 's version) refers to a large-impact, hard-to-predict, and rare event beyond the realm of normal expectations.

• radka stoeva 0 points 2008-07-22 21:07

  bla bla bla..............лл you say hahaha that is a thing that you can't take with your brain

• HiPhased 0 points 2007-12-28 17:15

  with most music people should make their own assumptions. its possible black swan is anti-labour (LoL) but more likely black swan is anti Bush.

• KArl MArx 0 points 2007-12-17 22:33

  Isn't a black swan something that can't be predicted, something that goes against the predicted trends?

• Rogerio 0 points 2007-04-17 13:29

  To Nallie:

  You are overthinking this. Most radiohead songs don´t spoke direct to your rational side. Shure you can brake into little pieces and try to "make" a sense to it, as you can do with a dream an most art types of expression - instead you could just "feel it", an let it spoke to you rather than trying to understand what he meant. I´m shure thom never meant this, but listem to jimi hendrix´s "hear my train a´comming" - just a person trying to change HIS world...

• Nallie 0 points 2007-03-21 17:02

  Hi,
  I'm french and I don't always get the meaning for the lyrics of radiohead's songs...
  Do you thing, like many other songs of the album the eraser, this one is a criticism to Tony blair's policy ?
  And if so, is Thom by saying " i'm a black swan" meaning he's some kind of a spine to Blair's foot ?

• Chris 0 points 2007-02-28 00:36

  The song is influenced by the Black Swan concept introduced by the philosopher Karl Popper. It relates to a very unusual event (like seeing a black swan, when you are used to only seeing white swans) which you do not anticipate or prepare for because they are so unusual you don't think about them. The critical lines of the song therefore are:

  'this your blind spot, blind spot
  it should be obvious, but it's not'

  Great song - my favourite on the album.

• Louis 0 points 2007-01-31 23:50

  Do you all agree he is ahead of his time? I still drift on Spinning plates and Fog; and there he comes with this amazing album!! speechless

• Toby 0 points 2007-01-15 09:18

  This song is fucking awesome! (not 'far' awesome!)

  one correction:

  "and laid down in the bed you've made"

  should be

  "and laid down in the bitumen"

• Donald 0 points 2006-11-09 17:23

  Yeah I thought I heard slightly different lyrics that didnt make as much sense but now I think this is a spot on that I've read it. What an excellent song. THe one after this is my other favorite from the CD.

• Matt 0 points 2006-09-24 03:56

  this song tells it exactly like it is with uncomromisng clarity, this is the kind perspective needs more air time, and to such a dark funky groove... the guitar is full of character, and the slides on the bass are bitchin, there's even a little bit of choppy hyper-jungle amenism on there for you snare lovers, thom yorke is a
  and you definatly can hear the 't' at the end of fucked...

• Erin 0 points 2006-09-18 05:20

  I'm like 90% positive he's saying fucked up, and that it is broken up not broken hearts.. If you listen you can hear the "ked" at the end.. it's just quiet.. I'm perrrrty sure. We'll see if Thom every wants to tell us..

• Walter 0 points 2006-09-10 10:02

  It is "fucked up". it should be obvious, but it's not.

• steve 0 points 2006-09-01 20:38

  I think black swan is about T.B.(kid A)

  Don`t you ?

• jonathan 0 points 2006-08-25 14:27

  j'ai acheter l'album il y a 2 jours et je ne peu m'empecher de fredonner the eraser

• beyrem 0 points 2006-08-25 13:00

  this song is my favorite in this album
  i dont think he's saynig fucked up...........

• Garrett 0 points 2006-08-24 06:21

  people hear what they want, I guess. I don't hear the "ked" in "fucked up" so how can that be right?

• Shel 0 points 2006-08-23 19:59

  This is fucked up, fucked up!

• Garrett 0 points 2006-08-23 11:17

  Also, isn't he saying ..."spare parts with broken hearts"

• Garrett 0 points 2006-08-23 11:14

  Isn't he saying "far up" not "fucked up"

• Romina 0 points 2006-08-11 03:57

  Tom just write poetry, what else?

• Mayito Olivé 0 points 2006-08-07 22:31

  THOM YORKE IT IS THE BEST THING THAN I HAVE LISTENED IN ALL MY LIFE, AND I THINK THAT NONCSINGLE THIS ONE SONG IS EXCELLENT BUT ALL ITS ALBUM!!!

• kim 0 points 2006-07-28 09:53

  This song is great! I first heard it after I watched the brilliant film A Scanner Darkly. I didn't even know Thom's solo album was released so the following day I picked it up!