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Radiohead - No Surprises Song Meanings
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anonymous
June 8th, 2007 09:37PM
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I can agree to disagree. The song is about a man who has chosen the safe way of life (thus no alarms and no surprises) instead of the one with unlimited possibilities and lack of guarantee. To take this life is essentially like committing suicide, when he "shake hands with carbon dioxide", he accepts his fate in return for material needs that society feels he needs, his "pretty house" and "pretty garden". Secretly, he earns for the other life, the "tired and unhappy" life full of eventful and passionate possibilities, as opposed to the pointless life he chose to live. The song shows his pain and suffering in realization of his wrong choice.
anonymous
March 24th, 2007 06:04PM
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I believe the first poster could be correct, it could be about someone who is frustrated with all that modern life has to offer, so they just wish to get away. But I think they might wish to take it a step further and commit suicide by carbon monoxide to get away.
DeeEgo
January 11th, 2009 11:48PM
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I think "No Surprises" is about a man who needs to change his way of living, which is mainly based on working as hard as you can in order to get material things ("prety house", "prety garden")...that man could be a metaphor of the present time society, which is submited to superficiality, consumism and a life that gets more and more complicated, and decides to abandon that way of living ("I'll take a quiet life") although he knows it's almost a suicide ("A handshake of carbon monoxide"). It's like he's asking for a life without the kind of troubles caused by the life we all live nowadays ("no alarms, and no surprises").
anonymous
May 22nd, 2009 01:59PM
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This might be a song about how our modern day lives our 9 till 5 jobs that we dont even enjoy have left us too tired and worn out to really care about anything, so the goverment are free to do what they want as most people cant really be bothered to oppose them.
anonymous
May 22nd, 2009 02:02PM
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Or it may just be a song about a man who is unhappy and wants to end it all. Had enough of his life his job ect.
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