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A favourite of Thom’s, he expected it to appear on OK Computer, but the band decided not to include it. The song has been played on a few occasions on the OK Computer tour, often as a powerful encore with just his voice and an acoustic guitar.

If the future of funerals has a sound, this is it. In its organ driven glory, Motion Picture Soundtrack is actually one of the more put together songs and optimistic songs on the album, despite the grim lyrical matter. The song has quite an ethereal, heavenly feel about it, given by the choir and the cascading harp at the end. The final line, “I will see you in the next life”, seems to agree with the “heavenly” part.

An early version of the song includes another final verse and then the chorus:
Beautiful angel
Pulled apart at birth
Limbless and helpless
I can’t even recognise you
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  • Kid A
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  • Album Box Set
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  • exitsence

    i feel that in all the reviews and general discussion nobody wants to talk about this song, because... it's just so obvious one shouldn't talk about it.

    Friday afternoon

  • V4run

    I was going to skip it but heard the first chord and just sat and did nothing. [2]

    14 days ago

  • juanfmonc

    I dedicated this pic (http://tinyurl.com/c5dmqmz) to this song. Yoy may like it :)

    14 days ago

  • Rawrrrrr_

    I will see you in the next life ♥

    15 days ago

  • LilCactus7

    I've reached Heaven

    28 days ago

  • Ennish

    Crushes the heart with one final blow. Reminds me a bit of Nico's stuff, too.

    last month

  • matt_white

    this is absolutely devastatingly beautiful and magnificent. oh my god.

    last month

  • isvn957

    sigur-rósesque[2]

    last month

  • bruno_avilar

    :~

    March 2012

  • willteece

    I will see you in the next life.

    March 2012

  • uneternal-sleep

    harps ;____;

    March 2012

  • Nakkinak

    holy shit ;___;

    February 2012

  • mulololo

    Inspired The beatles - GOODNIGHT

    February 2012

  • maltezanin

    This song will play at my funeral... ;)

    January 2012

  • EdgeLike

    I haven't. And this may be the greatest piece of music to ever have existed.

    January 2012

  • EdgeLike

    listen to it on LSD if you want a true mind altering experience.

    January 2012

  • blondevagabonde

    To listen Motion Picture Soundtrack at night, in the dark and in utter silence is a mind-altering experience. [4]

    January 2012

  • XDRory

    I was going to skip it but heard the first chord and just sat and did nothing.

    January 2012

  • idoxcase

    אני אראה אותך בחיים הבאאאאיייייייייייייייםםם

    January 2012

  • ejbarto

    sigur-rósesque

    January 2012
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