PYRAMID SONG

Released:
May 2001
Length: 4:51
Disc: Amnesiac | Pyramid Song single | Amnesiac College EP | Pyramid Song - Pinkpop
Tablature: Piano
Pyramid Song Video

The band have been playing this regularly at live shows for over a year, now. The very earliest version had only Thom alone on the piano. Since then, it's been reworked to include the whole band. With a kind of howling wind throughout, this track really takes off after about 2 minutes, as the band join in with Thom's piano solo. Beautiful! This song goes under many names. Originally called Nothing To Fear, the title was changed to Egyptian Song and has now been confirmed to be called Pyramid Song. Though it seems to have nothing to do with egypt, or pyramids, the music does have an egyptian tint to it. Without sounding crap, of course :p

It's the first single off the new album Amnesiac, featuring videos, radio play and everything! Ah, we missed it after Kid A's no singles policy.

There's little doubt that this is probably the strongest track on the new album. Pyramid Song has this wonderfully mesmerising quality about it that I can't describe. It is a fantastic listen, though. Phil's drumming is brilliant, Thom's vocals amaze, as the piano chords and bass continue throughout. Originally, the ending had Thom howling the ending music himself, but the studio version has it all done by what sounds like some nifty strings.

Jumped in the river, what did I see?
Black-eyed angels swam with me
A moon full of stars and astral cars
And all the figures I used to see
All my lovers were there with me
All my past and futures
And we all went to heaven in a little row boat

There was nothing to fear and nothing to doubt

I jumped into the river
Black-eyed angels swam with me
A moon full of stars and astral cars
And all the figures I used to see
All my lovers were there with me
All my past and futures
And we all went to heaven in a little row boat

There was nothing to fear and nothing to doubt
There was nothing to fear and nothing to doubt
There was nothing to fear and nothing to doubt
Thom Yorke "That song literally took 5 minutes to write, yet it came from all these mad places. Sort of like something I never thought I could actually get across in a song, and lyrically. And I sort of managed it and so... I was really chuffed. And it was just uhm.. Lots of stuff about... Steven Hawkings. Y'know.. he talks about time, and the idea that time is completely siplicle (sp?). It's always doing this *spings finger around in circles*. It's just a factor like gravity. And it's something that I've found, sort of, in Buddhism too. And that's what Pyramid Song is about. Pyramid Song is about the fact that everything is going in circles. It's not a desperate attempt to avoid death... It's not a desperate attempt to avoid life passing you by. Getting old, all that sort of stuff. That's all just bollocks. It's great. It's just this really beautiful thing that's just going 'round and 'round." - Thom
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