Artist: Radiohead
Song: Jigsaw Falling Into Place
Album: In Rainbows (2008)
Jigsaw Falling Into Place was released as the first single from In Rainbows on 14 .01.08, following the album's "standard" physical release on December 31, 2007, the song was previously known as "Open Pick", a title it was given provisionally when it was performed during Radiohead's 2006 tour.
A bit of an upbeat number, it comes off lyrically as a cautionary tale and, despite being written years later, a companion piece to "Nude", and despite seeming like a natural crowdpleaser was among the In Rainbows songs least-often performed live in 2006.
Key lyric: "As the magic disappears/ No longer wound up like a spring/ Before you've had too much/ Come back and focus again" (Pitchfork)
The lyrics talks about the fears and emotions of two people who experience their first meeting.
The black-and-white music video features the five members of Radiohead playing the song in a room with footage taken using "head cams" (the cameras are attached to the helmets). The video was directed by Adam Buxton and Garth Jennings. It was uploaded to the band's new YouTube page on 28.11.07. It is the first Radiohead video to feature the whole band since 2000's "Idioteque" video, and the first video for a single to feature the whole band since 1996's "Street Spirit (Fade Out)" video, though the 1997 video for "Paranoid Android" did feature an animated cameo from the band.
Just as you take my hand
Just as you write my number down
Just as the drinks arrive
Just as they play your favourite song
As the magic disappears
No longer wound up like a spring
Before you’ve had too much
Come back and focus again
The walls abandon shape
You’ve got a cheshire cat grin
All blurring into one
This place is on a mission
Before the night owl
Before the animal noises
Closed circuit cameras
Before you’re comatose
Before you run away from me
Before you’re lost between the notes
The beat goes round and round
The beat goes round and round
I never really got there
I just pretended that I had
What’s the point of instruments
Words are a sawed off shotgun
Come on and let it out
Come on and let it out
Come on and let it out
Come on and let it out
Before you run away from me
Before you’re lost between the notes
Just as you take the mic
Just as you dance, dance, dance
Jigsaws falling into place
There is nothing to explain
Regard each other as you pass
She looks back, you look back
Not just once
Not just twice
Wish away the nightmare
Wish away the nightmare
You’ve got a light you can feel it on your back
You’ve got a light you can feel it on your back
Jigsaws falling into place
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