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Radiohead – Reckoner (4:49)

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This song was first played at the Gorge in George, WA on June 23, 2001.

For instance, Reckoner keeps reminding of a line from the opening of Book II from Goethe’s Faust, “Life is not light but the refracted color.” The meaning is that life is not pure but mixed, like rainbows. Radiohead’s album title, “In Rainbows,” and this song from which it comes, suggest there are deals made, and reckonings to be made by the life we live and these deals mean we live multiple lives, not a singular or pure one. Thus, as the song, Reckoner, says, “Because we separate like/ripples on a blank shore.” That is to say, we fragment and in the fragmentation make and are “in rainbows.” We are clothed and bathed in the colors of life. This is the exit door from the moral dilemmas that would condemn us to hell for the choices we make, the inflexible codes that demand we live an impossibly pure life. It is redemption and is similar to the redemption of Faust at the end of the story, at least in Goethe’s version. Interestingly, the song preceding this one is currently called “Faust Arp.” This further lead to think it was intended. And Mephistopheles, shows up in, “Videotape,” which interestingly enough is a song about a kind of redemption. The album has the vague structure, of the Faust story.
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  • ZultanUK

    love it...at first I didnt like this tune...but its defo grown on me.

    Wednesday afternoon

  • Voltagx

    "dedicated to awe you..."

    last week

  • ArcadeFirez

    If God made a song, this would be it.

    11 days ago

  • Clembot

    Was my first "favorite" off of In Rainbows; the strings cinched it.

    28 days ago

  • jamestheinsider

    Raw, timeless, beautiful.

    29 days ago

  • greatezalor

    Scintillating. Speechless. [2] Thom's voice is Mellifluous and -God, I am riveted!

    last month

  • Kat_38

    Love this track, Beautiful !!!!

    last month

  • low-end

    dedicated to all human beings

    last month

  • EricValeev

    speechless

    last month

  • realfuckingnito

    In Rainbows is my personal favorite album by Thomas Yorkshire and the Radioheads.

    last month

  • EdgeLike

    GET OUT OF THIS SHOUTBOX YOU DEMONS.

    last month

  • ArcadeFirez

    My favorite Radiohead song tied with Street Spirit. Just so amazing.

    last month

  • niqart

    Я не знаю почему эта песня такая???? Почему ????

    last month

  • sa_ill

    scintillating. speechless.

    March 2012

  • AmyJune

    amazing song, I wish the last 30 seconds could go on forever in my life. [2]

    March 2012

  • RandyRamadhani

    because we separate, it ripples our reflections <3 <3 <3

    March 2012

  • xLiax

    For me it's their best.

    March 2012

  • AndrzFAL

    This song is beautiful, but I loved it more when I didn't know Tellier's La Ritournelle.

    March 2012

  • Pezrawr

    Fucking speechless

    March 2012

  • Flame39

    Beautiful

    March 2012
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