NOTHING TOUCHES ME

Released:
April 1991
Length: 3:50
Disc: Manic Hedgehog demo tape

One of the earliest tracks from the On a Friday days, this song appears only on the Manic Hedgehog cassette, though it is fairly easy to obtain on the tape-trade market.

Another guitar driven On A Friday track (aren't they all?) this one contains a very fast drum beat. The verses sound a bit... weird, but the chorus is absolutely top notch Radiohead stuff. This is easily the best of the On A Friday demo tracks. While some of them have some really poor parts to them (yes, they were a new band and I'm not dissing them), this one really displays the potential that the band would later realise.

Nothing touches me, man
These walls are three feet thick
Wouldn't take one of them little drills to get through it
I try to make her listen
When I turn away she's split
I try to make her listen
When I turn away she's split

She went...
Nothing touches me now
Nothing touches me now

Nothing touches me man
No matter how you split
Sticks and stones can get through bones
So I've given up looking out of it
I try to make her listen
When I turn away she's split
I try to make her listen
When I turn away she's split

She went...
Nothing touches me now
Nothing touches me now

Nothing touches me now
Nothing touches me now

Laugh if you can, if you can, if you can, at me now
Laugh if you can, if you can, if you can, at me now
Laugh if you can, if you can, if you can, at me now
Laugh if you can, if you can, if you can, at me now
Thom Yorke "It's based on an artist who was imprisoned for abusing children and spent the rest of his life in a cell, painting, but the song is about isolating yourself so much that one day you realize that you haven't got any friends anymore and no one talks to you." - Thom
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