LOTUS FLOWER

In an essence, this song summarizes what Radiohead and Thom Yorke are all about.


This is not me but some fellow victims' interpretations and I think they are enough to say what I have to say.

First guy:


I feel the theme across the song  is the struggle between wanting to innocently love his partner and himself.

Art is after all in the eye of the beholder right?
Then again, maybe it is more science, like a roscharch test, where one is again asked to interpret the shadows according to their own thoughts.
Major Themes: A soured, worn love. Narcissism. Borderline Personality. Megalomania.

I feel this is a conversation a person with the above traits is having with himself as he copes with the finality of loss of his love...this is not about him losing love, but losing control. Also he is having conversations with his now lost love.

So even as he struggles to understand this loss- he alternates between power-trips (ego defenses)

Second guy:
This is about some one who is in LOVE/ in LUST with someone but has finally come to terms that the person will not reciprocate and now they have accepted this but will still give all they have anyway.

"I will shape myself into your pocket
Invisible
Do what you want
I will shrink and I will disappear
I will slip into the groove and cut me off"- This is someone who is willing to lose themselves and shape to other person's pocket, and lose their self-respect.

"There's an empty space inside my heart
Where the weeds take root
And now I'll set you free
I'll set you free"- This goes on to say that the spot that he/ she had for this person is now filled with weeds/ dirt/ filler and because of this they are letting him go in the the sense that he/she doesn't expect the same in return anymore.

There seems to be someone else or a reason why they cannot be together but this person has lost all self respect because when this person/obstacle is gone, they will be there for them to do as they wish.

"We will shrink and we'll be quiet as mice
And while the cat is away
Do what we want
Do what we want"

Slowly we unfurl
As lotus flowers

From ancient times the lotus has been a divine symbol in Asian traditions representing the virtues of sexual purity and non-attachment.
So this is someone who will give themselves sexually, emotionally, physically and now is not attached.This is a symbol of connecting, becoming one without the "title"

This person is a weakness to them, a habit that cannot be quit. And when you give yourself to someone who won't give themselves to you- you are just... filling their "fast ballooning head"

Ahh- we all have been there. Listen to your heart.