Radiohead - Jigsaw Falling Into Place (Lyrics On Screen)

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[DaniloLuisFaria]

Radiohead shows how their notion of love changed over the years. At first they came up with this song, Creep, with a very teenager approach, saying that they're not enough for the people they love - feeling weird and creepy compared to the object of desire. Later they made Fake Plastic Tree, with a very cynical perspective, blaming love for being fake and plastic, and not the real thing, despite the fact that it feels so. Eventually they made the ultimate realization on the matter with Jigsaw Falling Into Place, giving status of truth for things that happens only for a glimpse of time, like in a night club - the thing is real - even magic - while it lasts, and it is up to us to make it special.

[milgrau]

How is this one not more famous than creep

[FrancescaBakewell]

This song just makes me want to get up and dance. Every time.

[asmasultana]

When his voice goes higher the lyrics turn into this abrupt admission of the character’s feelings, as if he’s confessing to himself the reality of the situation. Eventually he reaches a conclusion as, the jigsaw has fallen into place.

[MichaelSmith-zwmy]

"The beat goes round and round.. THE BEAT GOES ROUND AND ROUND.." it just goes so hard.. and the melody at the very end is like the best part.

[nf_vr_pb]

Always thought the line "your bad day disappears" was "your bladder disappears." Like just as we sit down to a seemingly perfect dinner with perfect music the moment is interrupted cause you had to take a leak.

[adambowser]

Thom is notoriously hard to understand, I seriously doubt that you could simply listen very closely to understand the lyrics. I distinctly remember looking up the lyrics to Paranoid Android after years of thinking I knew the lyrics and being completely blown away by how wrong I heard them

[TriniGamerGirl]

I mad love this song and it’s quite difficult to sing, but I will not stop trying to sing it. The lyrics are genius too.

[Alhoshka]

[1] I interpret it as follows:
It's about clubbing (as courtship) and all the emotional/psychological intricacies involved in it.
Guy goes out, meets girl and starts flirting. He feels a connection and everything appears to be going well, but the dishonesty/vulgarity of her reciprocating this connection as a result of alcohol intoxication becomes more and more apparent.
He starts realizing that everyone in there is "on a mission" [...]

[matteocoarezza]

Just as you take my hand
Just as you write my number down
Just as the drinks arrive
Just as they play your favorite song
As your bad day disappears
No longer wound up like a spring
Before you had too much
Come back in focus again
The walls are bending shape
They've got a Cheshire cat grin
All blurring into one
This place is on a mission
Before the night owl
Before the animal noises
Closed circuit cameras
Before you're comatose
Before you run away from me
Before you're lost between the notes
The beat goes round and round
The beat goes round and round
I never really got there
I just pretended that I had
Words are blunt instruments
Words are sawed-off shotguns
Come on and let it out
Come on and let it out
Come on and let it out
Come on and let it out
Before you run away from me
Before you're lost between the notes
Just as you take the mic
Just as you dance, dance, dance
Jigsaw falling into place
So there is nothing to explain
You eye each other as you pass
She looks back, you look back
Not just once
Not just twice
Wish away the nightmare
Wish away the nightmare
You've got a light, you can feel it on your back
A light, you can feel it on your back
Jigsaw falling into place

[gse]

The "you got the light" lyric is challenging to sing and I can never hope to sound as good as Thom. I'll just keep mumbling it in the shower :)

[diegoregina]

This track's one hell of a masterpiece..

[JosephAKASkye]

The way Thom Yorke sings makes it impossible to learn the lyrics just by listening to the song. That's why TheLampard80 was smart and used the OFFICIAL booklet.

[Gorsdof]

I have good memories with this song, but the person who gave me those memories is gone. So i cry everytime i listen to this masterpiece.

[Kento_nanami_the_nd]

It also could be a song about the randomness of life and relations grouping together, and while at first, sense isnt made from it, in time after actions and pontifications sense is achieved. With a good amount of alacrity i'll add.

[michaelpeat]

Well the comments have been taken off all Radiohead songs so here I am

[Alhoshka]

[3] He starts fearing rejection and ridicule. Sadly, that‘s exactly what happens. She finds another guy she fancies more and figures she could do better. Finally it downs on him, the instrumental nature of this “mating-market”; the fact that he fooled himself and was just as dishonest as she; the fact that he’s not good enough and, in actuality, never stood a chance.
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This is not the "official" meaning, but I've looked around on the Net and this interpretation makes most sense to me.

[adityakarmaker]

probably the happiest radiohead song <3

[NefastusMisantropUrgehal]

One of the best ever written Songs in the fkn world, the beat is thrilling sick 😜

[TheLampard]

@haydss55 Why thank you! And yes, "YOU JUST GOT PAID" does appear in the In Rainbows lyrics booklet... it's never sung in the song, but I though I'd add it in anyway. If you go to "rhdiscog . com" you can see the official CD inserts.