Street Spirit Fade Out -Track 12 on The Bends - Radiohead - lyrics #radiohead #thomyorke #lyrics

A song about the futility of life, the pointlessness of existence and the certainty of death.

The song is a fitting end to a quite depressing album in which Yorke ends with a glimmer of hope with a suggestion for how to deal with it all. Although the song adds to the pointlessness and hopelessness of life (and death) it also sends the message in the outro that love is the answer to all that life has to offer.
Throughout the whole album, such a happy note on (conscious) life cannot be found (Nice dream is a more happy song, but it’s about escaping life into dreaming).