Radiohead - Backdrifts (Honeymoon is Over)

8/8/12

So we may have established that Bon Jovi are a thousand times better than Radiohead earlier this week, but that's not to say the Brit crybabies don't have a few good tunes...;).

Backdrifts (Honeymoon is Over)” is one of BitCandy's favorite Radiohead tracks. It is lifted from 2003's Hail to the Thief, which, ironically, many rank among the band's poorest work.

 

The underrated glitchy gem is based around a loop that Yorke composed on a Yamaha Walkstation. As for the lyrics, Yorke professed to have picked most of the words from a hat, but he has also stated the song is about "the slide backwards that's happening everywhere you look.”

Check out an amazing live rendition of "Backdrifts,” filmed in Tokyo, Japan in 2003, below.

 

Lyrics:

We're rotten fruit
We're damaged goods
What the hell we've got nothing more to lose
One burst and we will probably crumble
We're backdrifting
This far but no further
I'm hanging off a branch
I'm teetering on a breaker
Honey sweets so fall asleep
I'm backsliding
You fell into our arms
You fell into our arms
We tried but there was nothing we could do
Nothing we could do
All evidence has been buried
All tapes have been erased
But your footsteps give you away
So you're backtracking
Oh oh oh
You fell into our arms
You fell into our arms
We tried but there was nothing we could do
Nothing we could do
You fell into our
You fell into a
We're rotten fruit
We're damaged goods
What the hell we've got nothing more to lose
One burst and we will probably crumble
We're backdrifters

 

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