Music & lyrics by Radiohead

Opening track to The Bends, Radiohead's second album released twenty years ago, this song with its lyrics tainted with both great lucidity and disenchantment matches our current reality more than ever — in the lowly world where everyone and everything is obviously broken. But giving up is definitely not an option ! Besides (and thankfully), Thom Yorke is still engaged in activism, which means he still has faith somehow. As a bonus, check this cool alternative version accompanied by visions of apocalypse introduced as “basically an overview of the future humanity has predestined itself to”.

Ey@el

You can force it but it will not come.
You can taste it but it will not form.
You can crush it but it’s always here.
You can crush it but it’s always near.
Chasing you home saying
Everything is broken...
Everyone is broken...

You can force it but it will stay stung.
You can crush it as dry as a bone.
You can walk it home straight from school.
You can kiss it, you can break all the rules.
But still
Everything is broken...
Everyone is broken...

Everyone is... everyone is broken...
Everyone is... everything is broken...

Why can’t you forget?
Why can’t you forget?
Why can’t you forget?

© Thom Yorke, 1995

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