The Bends

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The Bends by Radiohead

About The Bends

This track was intially introduced as being about "knowing who your real friends are and when they're going to come to your gigs." Thom soon simplified this to "knowing who your friends are." The song reflects Radiohead sense of humor; it contains many ridiculous lines about the CIA and the Marines. Of the opening, Thom says, "The sound at the beginning comes from this caterwauling mayhem outside this hotel in the States. There was this guy training these eight-year-old kids .

The Bends Lyrics

[00:44.93] Where do we go from here?
[00:47.36] The words are coming out all weird
[00:49.76] Where are you now when I need you?
[00:55.41] Alone on an aeroplane
[00:58.09] Falling asleep against the window pane
[01:02.53] My blood will thicken
[01:06.39]
[01:16.93] I need to wash myself again
[01:19.57] To hide all the dirt and pain
[01:21.32] 'Cause I'd be scared
[01:24.13] That there's nothing underneath
[01:27.44] And who are my real friends?
[01:30.23] Have they all got the bends?
[01:32.29] Am I really sinking this low?
[01:36.68]
[01:38.99] My baby's got the bends, oh no
[01:43.97]
[01:46.99] We don't have any real friends, no, no, no
[01:54.36] I'm just lying in a bar with my drip feed on
[01:57.06] Talking to my girlfriend waiting for something to happen
[02:01.93] And I wish it was the sixties
[02:03.54] I wish I could be happy
[02:04.64] I wish, I wish
[02:05.92] I wish that something would happen
[02:09.50]
[02:12.57] Where do we go from here?
[02:14.98] The planet is a gunboat in a sea of fear
[02:19.90] And where are you?
[02:23.04] They brought in the CIA
[02:25.50] The tanks and the whole marines
[02:27.67] To blow me away
[02:30.46] To blow me sky high
[02:34.68] My baby's got the bends
[02:40.22]
[02:42.77] We don't have any real friends
[02:47.19]
[02:49.93] I'm just lying in a bar with my drip feed on
[02:52.40] Talking to my girlfriend waiting for something to happen
[02:57.43] I wish it was the sixties
[02:58.80] I wish I could be happy
[02:59.92] I wish, I wish
[03:01.33] I wish that something would happen
[03:07.83]
[03:28.24] I wanna live and breathe
[03:31.14] I wanna be part of the human race
[03:34.24]
[03:37.91] I wanna live and breathe
[03:41.46] I wanna be part of the human race, race, race, race
[03:49.48] Where do we go from here
[03:52.16] The words are coming out all weird
[03:54.49] Where are you now when I need you?
[04:00.87]

From the album: The Bends