Radiohead - Lift Lyrics






This is the place
Sit down, you're safe now
You've been stuck in a lift
We've been trying to reach you, Thom
This is the place
It won't hurt, ever again

The smell of air conditioning
The fish are belly up
Empty all your pockets
Cause it's time to come home

This is the place
Remember me
I'm the face you always see
You've been stuck in a lift
In the belly of a whale
At the bottom of the ocean

A smell of air conditioning
The fish are belly up
Empty all your pockets
Cause it's time to come home

Today is the first day of the rest of your days
So lighten up, squirt





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  1. i.... r....

    the moral: use stairs

  2. T.... K....

    Wait... Isn't that woman in the black dress his current fiance?

  3. A.... V....

    3.8k people have never been stuck in a lift/

  4. F.... K....

    radiohead hit you differently

  5. �.... ....

    fuck awesome

  6. L.... ....

    Relatable

  7. g.... H....

    *elevator

  8. A.... S....

    1:48 They all did the Mourinho

  9. N.... ....

    다시봐도 뮤비 참 좋다 의미도 있고

  10. A.... P....

    Alguien 2020?

  11. M.... N....

    Is this 4 minutes of Thom being uncomfortable on an elevator, cause that's pretty cool. Need me a pair of them shoes though.

  12. P.... a....

    Imagine E. Hopper watching this vid

  13. s.... ....

    he should have left the elevator and just taken the stairs

  14. M.... S....

    Isn´t the lady that stops the closing doors at the start of the video the same lady from the Anima short in Netflix? Too bad there are no credits in the description to corroborate.

  15. S.... ....

    The man who gets on the lift at 4:09 is none other than Les Dawson.

  16. M.... M....

    I like this video again and again...the history in my life...

  17. j.... d....

    i swear down thom came to our shop one day . he just looked at the guitars for sale for about 15 seconds stared at me for about 6 seconds and left . its ok , ive been told i look like a mix between sloth from the goonies and nosferatu . and yeah , guys who work in guitar shops are mostly dicks anyway . so who could blame him . put that down unless your going to pay for it and no, we dont have nickel plated semi flat wound swan gut core 7 string electric gee thhharr strings in a 6.5 ~ 58.577 gauge . i sold the last set 40 minutes ago to that guy from the motherfuckers of doom or something , i can get them in for tuesday .

  18. M.... A....

    I always though the lift was going up. Just realized it is actually going down.

  19. R.... J....

    the real life.

  20. C.... B....

    Bruh in the minute 2:53 appears the kind of Android paranoid carrying the fish he saw with his black friend 🔥😳🔥

  21. T.... ....

    This song feels like the most cathartic, warm hug from a friend you haven’t seen in forever

  22. C.... G....

    Floors, a poem.

    where did the other guy go?
    it's okay. you're both great.
    hey. i'm a fan. i ran away.
    from everything.

  23. G.... D....

    Estiloso demais esse thom, pqp.

  24. A.... M....

    3:34 love how the elevator says OK on floor number

  25. T.... ....

    no, I am Thom Yorke

  26. Z.... Z....

    This song gave birth to Coldplay and Muse's entire career and it wasn't release until now.

  27. t.... c....

    Can we get a harry potter thom yorke crossover? R.I.P. Paul Walker :(

  28. b.... l....

    radio head rocks da house bigtime

  29. G.... P....

    2:56 should've taken a photo with Thom.

  30. S.... K....

    Окружи себя красотой, и красота окружит тебя, братка!!!

  31. S.... K....

    I Love You!!!

  32. S.... K....

    Just another admireous comment)

  33. B.... S....

    Lighten up, squirt. Jeeze.

  34. i.... m....

    Thank you :D

  35. r.... j....

    I listen to this when I need thom Yorker to tell me evrythings gonna be ok

  36. r.... j....

    I heard this song today and have pretty much played it on a loop.

  37. M.... A....

    Whoever creates videos for Radiohead is just as much of a band member as anyone else.

  38. A.... o....

    this video is fucked.

  39. l.... ....

    If 'Ok Computer' had been released with 'Man of War', 'Lift', and 'I promise'... Just imagine the reception beyond what it originally got (which was phenomenal anyway). It would have been hailed as a second coming.

    l.... ....

    lozimia these songs would fit on The Bends perfectly. OKC not so much...

  40. C.... S....

    minidisc version 893269263 times better but this is still ok

  41. S.... B....

    2:51 Robin, from the Paranoid Android video

  42. L.... L....

    Just imagine. A song this good not making it on the album.

    L.... L....

    IT is, in the OknotOk

  43. L.... ....

    Wonder what's in the basement.

  44. M.... F....

    The first 6 seconds should seriously be their own song.

  45. C.... P....

    HA! Sounds like Pablo Honey. yall are funny!

  46. M.... h....

    A:รีบเลื่อนลงไปหน่อย ผมจะได้ขึ้นไป
    กู:fuck off!!

  47. D.... V....

    I don't listen to radiohead for fun. I only appreciate it completely when I need something to pick myself up

  48. D.... T....

    "...touch divides pleasure and pain..."
    ,dan'

  49. A.... S....

    I just love this song so much.. put in on repeat whenever I need to pull myself out of the mire.

  50. R.... ....

    The final was one of the weirdest thing I've ever seen in my life.

  51. w.... a....

    this is what i imagine Tiny tower game's like

  52. f.... f....

    Keep scrolling... I'm just go

  53. k.... ....

    2:51 that guy witha fishbowl is in the radiohead paranoid android video/carttoon hes the main carachter

  54. M.... M....

    why he didn't stop the elevator for the old guy :(

  55. Q.... J....

    one of the saddest music videos I've seen

  56. w.... ....

    everything about it is so Beatles. They were just so inspired by them.

    w.... ....

    Fuck no

    w.... ....

    Idk man. Doesn't really resemble what I've heard from the Beatles

  57. S.... K....

    Ok, Lift

  58. �.... �....

    Я так с 15-го этажа каждое утро езжу

  59. C.... L....

    Sometimes I don’t know what the video is saying

  60. D.... T....

    "you don't levitate me so much as you give me sound to climb on."
    ,dan' to Radiohead. Under and in.;(

    D.... T....

    Who said that

    D.... T....

    @Alexander , I did man. Check out the playlists I saved from waterlung.
    ,dan'

  61. D.... T....

    "stay colder faster"
    ,daniel"

  62. D.... T....

    "the shape of the opening on the old beer cans with pull tabs."
    ,dan'

    D.... T....

    Who said that

    D.... T....

    @Alexander, ,dan' did.

  63. D.... T....

    "Thom, as the front man to this band, can you come all the way down here to your own message board and message me. I dunno if you've noticed but I do big things with tiny amounts. of words and letters. I am actually a magician."
    my name is Daniel and
    I've left easter eggs on many of your videos, hopefully not to go unread.
    thanks, Dan.

  64. O.... g....

    If the world ever ends, I want this song playing in the background

  65. C.... E....

    The Smell of air conditioning

    O'Brien ; Edddddddddddddddd

    🤣

  66. R.... P....

    The synth’s on this track are the best I’ve ever heard

  67. N.... ....

    You can totally see why this song terrified Radiohead so much that they didn't release it for all these years.

  68. P.... L....

    This song is liberating

  69. g.... r....

    If my depression could sing, it would sing this song.

  70. Y.... ....

    One of the most useless Radiohead songs that i eva heard. RIP Radiohead: 1985-1997. No more Pablo Honey and The Bends.....

    Y.... ....

    Yalter777 I don’t think there are useless radiohead songs bro

    Y.... ....

    @n1212na ___ Bro for me band dyed after 1997, but its my humble opinion. Who love Radiohead foreva - god bless em. For me Depeche Mode also dyes after 2004 - so its the opinion tho

    Y.... ....

    @Yalter777 What about 'A Moon Shaped pool'? That was a very good album though

  71. S.... D....

    Круто!

  72. �.... ....

    うつ病かよ

  73. J.... O....

    0:35 Fake plastic pot

  74. L.... ....

    Классная песня настольгическая. Вспоминаю как я обнимал Лену в лифте. Ой не жми а то обосрусь, со смехом сказала она. Мы вошли в квартиру. Я быстро разделся до гола достал специальное приспособление сидение от унитаза на ножках. Лена осталась в комбинацие чулках и туфлях на каблуках. Она закурила и взрамоздилась на сидене. Я лёг под неё, так что её жопа повисла над моей грудью. Она пёрнула и вывалила порцию жидкого поноса. Потом она пердя срала и срала мне на грудь пока не навалила громадую кучу килограма два. Я дрочил и кончил но член не падал. Вот теперь можно трахнуться сказала Лена.

  75. T.... S....

    I may be projecting, but I always take this song to be about the blissful release of death, after being stuck in a lif(e)t*. It does sound promising. "It won't hurt ever again." "Empty all your pockets because it's time to come home." I have a hard time singing along with this without crying. Sigh. How nice it would be to "hit the bottom and escape."


    (I know, that's a different song, but it does match some of this song's lyrics, what with the reference to the belly of the whale at the bottom of the ocean.)


    *I'm reaching. I admit it. Shades of freshman writing assignments.

  76. E.... M....

    What if we kissed in the radiohead lift....

  77. D.... C....

    Somethimes i feel people i know, are just passing by at my life, and they just know me in a superficial way.

  78. B.... ....

    Compare this video to the, "All I Need" video

  79. L.... R....

    In what kind of building do people use the elevator to go down one floor

  80. S.... P....

    Kinda started like creep.... no not thier song the stone temple pilots one

  81. A.... N....

    i don't understand what the video is trying to tell us.. it's so profound

  82. W.... ....

    Should have taken the stairs

  83. f.... t....

    omg. i just realized Dajana was on this video. 00:20

  84. S.... ....

    No entiendo que putadas trata el video, alguien que me explique :( please

  85. K.... ....

    as someone that builds elevators for a living, it was cool to come into my room with this playing on the TV via Chromecast randomly.

  86. o.... ....

    Did anyone notice the guy at 2:54 is the character from the paranoid android music vid?

  87. j.... P....

    Thom..... you did it again!! ..... congratulations forever!!!

  88. M.... J....

    Para sempre Radiohead <3

  89. m.... m....

    one of the best radiohead songs ever

  90. m.... m....

    no socks ! its winter, youl caught a cold

  91. S.... T....

    I really like Thom's coat here

  92. S.... ....

    Shit man, I'd have just took the stairs

  93. s.... e....

    One of my favourites groups ♡♡♡

  94. e.... ....

    This is a fucking annoying band also can that asshole please just stand at the back of the elevator like someone with human decency and not make others uncomfortable like an annoying fuck

    e.... ....

    emotional_support_ghost they gotta fit the cameraman in there somewhere

  95. s.... ....

    just take the fuckin stairs

  96. D.... V....

    When pink guy gets depression and remakes the elevator prank video

  97. A.... M....

    Plastic shopping bags, i remember those.