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Was Thom Yorke über diesen Song sagt ist vielleicht genauso wirr oder prätentiös:
Thom says the band have to detach themselves from the true hidden meaning because it's so difficult to accept.
The song featured on their seminal 90s album "The Bends", and defined the band before their next album "OK Computer" smashed all conceptions about modern rock music at the time.
Thom's entire monologue is below. Read on to get a glimpse into what it's like for one of music's best known songwriters to battle with his own creation:
"'Street Spirit' is our purest song, but I didn't write it. It wrote itself. We were just its messengers. It's biological catylysts.
"It's core is a complete mystery to me. I wouldn't ever try to write something that hopeless. All of our saddest songs have somewhere in them at least a glimmer of resolve - 'Street Spirit' has no resolve. It is the dark tunnel without the light at the end.
"I detach my emotional radar from that song, or I couldn't play it. I'd crack. I'd break down on stage. That's why its lyrics are just a bunch of mini-stories or visual images as opposed to a cohesive explanation of its meaning. I used images set to the music that I thought would convey the emotional entirety of the lyric and music working together. That's what's meant by 'all these things are one to swallow whole'. I meant the emotional entirety, because I didn't have it in me to articulate the emotion. I'd crack.
"Our fans are braver than I to let that song penetrate them, or maybe they don't realize what they're listening to. They don't realize that 'Street Spirit' is about staring the f--king devil right in the eyes... and knowing, no matter what the hell you do, he'll get the last laugh.
"The devil really will get the last laugh in all cases without exception, and if I let myself think about that to long, I'd crack.
"It's why we play it towards the end of our sets. It drains me, and it shakes me, and hurts like hell everytime I play it, looking out at thousands of people cheering and smiling, oblivious to the tragedy of it's meaning, like when you're going to have your dog put down and it's wagging it's tail on the way there. That's what they all look like, and it breaks my heart."
"I wish that song hadn't picked us as its catalysts, and so I don't claim it. It asks too much... I didn't write that song."
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brutal. Ich habe keine Vorurteile aber als Sängerin scheint mir das dann doch etwas überzogen und ich frage mich 
warum so ein bombastisches Video 
das zweite auch ein paar 
oder ist ein Sponsor der verliebt ist und hör geschädigt …fragen über fragen ! 
was vielleicht vom Sprachfehler ablenken soll 
dazu 
