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Radiohead - 2+2=5 Song Meanings

Lyrics:
(We're on. Thats a nice way to start Jonny)

Are you such a dreamer
To put the world to rights?
I stay home forever
Where two and ...
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KurtCocaine_BH 2008-05-25 10:35:49    
I think he's talking about the other songs he's written I mean when the song changes to the harder part all he's saying basically is you haven't been paying attention...almost as if that no one was getting the meaning of his lyrics..and this is why he starts the album off this way.
anonymous 2008-06-06 23:28:47    
2+2=5 in your own world.
anonymous 2008-07-08 17:02:57    
From what I see, the whole idea behind this song is brainwashing - and it's absolutely brilliant.

Children are taught that 2+2=4 and nobody thinks any differently because they believe it to be right.

"January has april's showers, and two and two always makes up five" is trying to show how much it lacks logic.

The next verse seems to be depicting the government's control over people. "It's the devil's way now, there is no way out" The government is shown to be the devil, to be evil, and control, leaving no way out to its people.

In the last verse, "I swat 'em like flies but like flies the bugs keep coming back" the government have become a fly - like that annoying little fly in your kitchen that you don't really want because it's going to rot your fruit, but you can't seem to get rid of it.

"Don't question my authority or put me in the box"
This one is pretty self-explanatory - it's about prison, the police and ultimately, the government. Personally, I see it as a riot.

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