Radiohead - Just (You Do It To Yourself)

[DaSwaggerdon]

he said: lie down on the floor like me if thom yorke is the coolest guy ever.

[DuckSink]

Lying down is the new standing up

[delaney157]

Sin!!!!!!!!!

[JonnyZunset]

Occupy wall street take a whole new meaning now

[davidjakovljevic00]

Best song and best video at the same place :)

[Gos1234567]

check out a twilight zone episode called "need to know" starring william peterson and frances mcdormand,this is where th idea for this video came from,im serial!

[Screamifyoumeanit]

How about setting down to the expectation of, having children & dealing with the real shit of managing & copeing with the thoughts that you have instiled in others.

[eshnic]

i know its "just" a video, but now i also want to know what he said..dam..is that weird?? ;))))

[MrSandinista1000]

he said "nobody expects the spanish inquisition" :)

[suitsyousir1980]

class video

[igorchillipeppers123]

fucking awesome

[endlessllyy]

The best radiohead song..ever..

[FuzzyJumble]

Jamie Thraves - such an inspirational director.

[FuzzyJumble]

Jamie Thraves - such an inspirational director.

[MattyUl0]

This song always reminds me of September 11th...

[SuperZubz]

He says: 'the last one to get on the ground is a big fat gay. '

[mingtooter]

how does J.G get that MASSIVE amount of high-pitched sustain around 3:23 +  ?

blows my mind every time >.> legend...

[Slash99Cobain]

he said if we lie down justin bieber will get shot by Thom

[dreamingonyourpain]

@Slash99Cobain Once again, stop to talk about Justin Bieber! Is an idiot, I hate jb too, but I'm out!

[SOLDOFFORT]

Oh, and is Ed Obrien fuckn massive or r the other guys just short??

[Slash99Cobain]

@SOLDOFFORT Ed O'Brien is 6'5, Thom is 5'3. 14 inches difference. It doesnt look that much though.....

[SOLDOFFORT]

Im pretty sure he says: 'If enough people lie down, Radiohead will look at us out the window'

[yeahyeahyaha2]

@SOLDOFFORT hahahaha

[pnh92]

I dont know what he said be it must have been to make everyone fall like that

[Armando623]

I NEED TO KNOW!!!

[ImPoisonBeCareful]

im free, why should i not lay down in th middle of the street when i have the desire to do that?

everyones thinkin they must do what others do

the others find it cool and thats why tey lay down too

and everything is the same again

if one does a special shit, most people do the same also

sry for my english

[FastTadpole]

Really, look you can't be told what it is. You do have to figure this one out for yourself. The guy in the video did right before he laid down. That's how he dealt with it. I can tell you it is important. Maybe the most important thing we can do for ourselves and eachother. It fits directly with the song . Everyone laying down is truly free. He isn't angry. He can't be helped up. That would defeat the purpose. We did it to ourselves.

[topbluffa1]

there is no such thing as good or bad only spectrum.

so you really do it to yourself you do.

there is no such thins as suffering its self created by your perception of your situation.

[petermurphreak]

One of my ALL TIME FAVORITE bands!!!.... Double SPECIAL for me since Thom Yorke comes from the same town in England as MY GOD= Peter Murphy ( Wellingborough )!!!.... The 90's would hardly have any fucking RELEVANCE without the likes of fucking Radiohead!!!....

[Drenex00]

Looks as if he says "Music is a waste of life",which isn't true

[NeedForSpeedChamp]

awesome song

[KingOfOldTrafford]

I'm 15 and heavily into pop-punk and hardcore punk- that sort of stuff, that's my main love. But recently I've been branching out a bit and over the last month had a strange craze over the Smashing Pumpkins. Someone on another video said Radiohead are like the SP. So, I've checked them out... I don't think they are like SP, but I can see what the person means. This song gives me the chills and is one of those where I could just lie and listen to at midnight in the dark. It's an incredible song.

[Vincentskater1]

@KingOfOldTrafford OMG I know what you mean man!! I am 14, and I am into Heavy Metal and Classic Rock, and I like the Smashing Pumpkins, but the last few months I have been obessed with Nirvana. And, someone told me about Radiohead and I have been starting to listen to alot of their songs, and at first I didn't like them, but after hearing them 5 or 6 times, I started to love Radiohead! Its so weird.. and this song is one of my favorites.. I love this and Jigsaw Falling into place.

[Tearaway1985]

who cares what he said, he got a loada people to lay on the pavement....what a legend :D

[CheezdudeRevisited]

I love the tune that starts at 2:20

[Jozeppi1]

He said, "George W. Bush will be president for two terms in the United States." Remember, it was the '90s.

[EldestSauce]

You would think that out of that many people, one of them would have fallen forward.

[rollinwitnolan]

he said "I can't decide between Radiohead and Road head"

[porridgesilt]

will haunt me forever......"just tell me!"

[IcedCandies]

"There's a serial killer on the loose that only kills people who are standing up."

That is totally what he said. I seen't it.

[Qdog145]

3:39-3:42 is probably the most played back 4 seconds in history. Lol.

[josemlopes]

I dont think that he says anything, they just recorded him saying one thing and recorded him saying another thing, and then connected both words, that may be why there is a cut when he is talking and that may be why people dont understand

[MsEyaCreep]

The Whole Song Is Pretty GOOD! PLAY IT LOUD!!!!

[pixipretty808]

whoa. Mind blowing! Epic.

[ooopsiiing]

the chorus is freaking genius!!

[TepochaTe]

streetlight manifesto is covering this one, wonderfully by the way

[Amnesiacmidnitetoker]

DAMN i WONDER WHAT HE SAID lol im do it to my self right now wondering guessing what he said..I wish i could talk to the director of this video he must have the answer to all of our question lol!!

[Divljina89]

Haahahaha tough chance!

[Prophet91PL]

@Amnesiacmidnitetoker

you really wanna know? I'm lying here as i know and you don't want to know!

[Fakeone1710]

@Amnesiacmidnitetoker He said "Lying down is a new standing up"

[Qdog145]

Whatever he says: If we keep reading his lips, we'll end just like the people in the crowd. We do it to ourselves.

[alsbo1931]

I know what hes saying to them...hehe

[Xccam]

Simply the greatest video ever made...when the substantial number of videos were just videos made to promoe and sell...this one had something behind it that was never equalled or duplicated...regardless of what you may get from this video it made you think...and to this day the meaning is still up for question

[p1nkgrapefruits]

i cant believe this came out when i was 5 and im still jammin to it

[RoCK7HooLiGaN]

the best video ever made dont know even what to say

[Ripp3RX]

thats a GREAT video! loved it

and cool song too :D

[yeahyeahyaha2]

this is the 3th single 4 the bends, the fourth was street spirit

best video ever made by a human being,

the energy of the band blows the beatles, led zeppelin,the who, oasis and any metal band

[Whatever322k]

Why have so many of you concluded they have been told a 'great truth'?

It might simply be that the man has stumbled upon a thought, that forces him to lie down and when he tells people that thought they too have it and fall, like a virus that would spread across the world.

It doesn't have to be that the man has learnt anything, it doesn't have to be a great truth. It doesn't have to be about god or science or anything, it could just be nothing at all, just words. Meaningless words.

[alsbo1931]

But what if that thought is .....wait for it..that nothing that they do matters.. they only cruisin for an early exit by heart attack or other stress ailments.. anyway they are just destroying everything by their way of life.... would fit wih the rest of the record.. enough truth to give any schmo the bends

[Esquelerto]

Though I don't really think that's the key thing of the video I believe that the repeated mention of "God" by the main character induces to conclude that. But as the song tittle says, "you do it to yourself", and one interpretation I give to that is that you give the importance to the things that affect you, and just in the same way you can take that importance away, meaning you can get of the floor and you can affect, change, move things around... sorry for my broken english, I'm form Argentina

[gwm666]

This is the best video anyone has ever made ever (if you are smart enough to see wait is really being said).

[Whatever322k]

and what is being said?

Of course, I already know - i'm just asking to make sure YOU know.

[ddaa12]

For me, this is Grunge.

Great song...

[lukem77]

He said Joel Schumacher is directing Watchmen.

AHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!

*head explodes*

[ProPerfection]

ed looks cool XD

[lwichenko92]

2:37 makes me laugh. Thom Yorke is incredible

[OlympiaOverdrive]

LOL I LOVE Thom at 2:07 ;)

[Dibyong]

It only means we cannot be all perfectly equally Intelligent..... others should be genius and others just like me should be Dumb so that only one or few are only lying down on the floor not all of us....

[rhythmcorp]

"you kill to have I'd then but, you tell can I"

so view ----- Inspiration Wakker----

Thanx

[MrSteveJW]

"I can tell you, but then I'd have to kill you."

[scarletovergods]

BTW I have to say that it sometimes scares me a lot when I think that there is ONLY ONE definite answer to questions like: are all people egoists? does God exist? Is there life after death? If I knew the answer I would happily lie down for a moment :P

[scarletovergods]

"open-minded thinking and anti-ignorance are key to progress in society and happiness within individuals" I totally agree, I didn't mean ignorance in a bad way, I ment it as "the state in which one lacks knowledge" (wikipedia).

[scarletovergods]

the ending means to me one thing. if we only knew the whole truth about the world (whatever it is, "God exists and love us all no matter what", "we are all alone in this world and there are no higher values", "we are all only egoistic animals without free will" etc) we could not continue our lives like we do now. the truth would be too shocking for us to accept it calmly. it's LACK OF KNOWLEDGE and IGNORANCE that keeps us moving, thinking, living etc.

[assmane999]

*it's LACK OF KNOWLEDGE and IGNORANCE that keeps us moving, thinking, living * - You had me up to this sentence. I like to believe that it is open-minded thinking and anti-ignorance that are key to progress in society and happiness within individuals, so I don't agree with that statement. However, I do agree that there are some truths that we are not meant to know and which would destroy us and existence if we discovered them (And this is definitely one of the major themes of the video).

[semourbutts]

@assmane999 stanley kubrick's 2001.

[katecancook]

Thom Yorke looks ~so young~!! He's still weirdly sexy... then and now

[OlympiaOverdrive]

God, yes I know, there's something about him ;)

[naamhier]

it's weird tho... as he looks up, you see some scary guy coming from behind...

i love this vid and song, if it were real i would collapse on the ground myself :( lmao, very interesting

[KingSha12]

i like the Nba live 07 Version but still good

[ray42]

I always assumed it was, "Radiohead is up in that window."

It seemed to make the most sense from him looking up earlier, the band looking down, and everyone looking up at the end.

I guess trying to figure it out isn't the point though, is it. :P

[strangedailythings]

it kind off looks like he is saying "go away, go away"

[pokegast97]

you do it to yourself yeeaaahh!

[assmane999]

This is the whole point of it, to illicit this reaction from the viewer. And it's brilliant!

[katecancook]

elicit!

[assmane999]

Any theory you come up with yourself will be 100 times more interesting than what he actually says (even though, as people have already written on here, it doesn't matter what he says). It's a commentary on our insatiable curiosity. We have a compulsion to satisfy this curiosity even though we know it could 'fuck us up' to do so. Because we want to know so badly what he says, we are doing exactly what doomed the people in the video.

[Sockhead360]

wow nice comment really got me thinking

[flo410]

youre just right

[thebiglukebowski]

@assmane999 its just a song dude , lighten the fuck up

[assmane999]

Don't tell me what to do, punk. If I want to fuckin' analyze it thoroughly then that's my fuckin perrogative (I live in a free country you commie). This is a fairly deep video and it naturally sparks a deep discussion. But if you want to turn off your brain and just enjoy it like a Zombie, then that's your perrogative too (but don't force me to do that).

[wobjob]

i think you mean "prerogative".

[assmane999]

I missed one letter and you felt the need to point it out? That's pretty lame considering all the horrible miss-spellings you see on the internet. Do you look all over youtube for minor spelling errors to correct? 'cause if you do, find a better hobby.

[LighterThief42]

@assmane999 ffs, it's about being unwell. I thought that was strikingly obvious.

[assmane999]

@LighterThief42: strikingly obvious to an inferior intellect means very little to me, boy.

[LighterThief42]

@assmane999 it's not only about being unwell, it's about being so unwell you can't even have a conversation about it to anyone.

[assmane999]

@LighterThief42: Then how do you explain that he tells them so clearly that it effects them so profoundly? It Seems like to me he can have a conversation about it. You missed the mark on this one, it's much deeper than that. IT involves something metaphysical and maybe supernatural since it seems to lead to the end of human existence.

[benjamin000benjamin]

@assmane999 (clap) (clap) (clap)

[assmane999]

@benjamin000benjamin: That seems very sincere :)

[assmane999]

Easily one of the best videos of all time. I love it!

[chelios3]

he said "if you lie here you can hear radiohead playing"

[hendrixrocks4]

can anyone read his lips?

[annettecls]

lol!

[Dibyong]

he said masturbate... Just do it with yourself...

[syerra1]

No, it's because he told them!

I think the others wanted them to know, but by now with this interpretation I could be wrong

[kutedog]

the nba 07 is good :D

[stupaod]

in reality if what he said really was that mind blowing they would become angry and leave immediately while insulting him for lying on the ground

[halo3nerd92]

song is amazing :D

[djaxoals]

such a weird guy

such a weird weird looking guy

but at the same time

such a wonderful genius

wow

so amazing

WAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[iSabotage]

What's a normal looking guy?

[capslock86]

someone who's average I suppose.

[andyxkaragiozi]

i guess that a generic yuppie would fit the normal guy look

[darles270490]

"britney spears JUST wont die", I guess thats what he said...

[KingSha12]

i think i like the nba live 07 version

[smokindog]

I didn't really want to know :-O

[h4ppydriver]

fuck

[h4ppydriver]

this is the best song ever if you open your head wide enough

god bless you radiohead ... that gos you know does not exist, but is there

[Vla3d]

i read on pitchfork on what the man could have said: "if you lye down here, you'll see radiohead playing in that window", haha

[thegreatupski]

i like what thom does at 1:51 its very sneaky

[GovtSoldner]

Mick Jagger?

[kokolidao]

hahahahaha gg!!!!!!!!!1

[ballsyer8]

lizardshitfuck's comment wasnt brilliant i think, but Radiohead sure is!

[bleedingeyes08]

muse sucks balls

[InsomniaDonkey]

nice ending

[80sRockerKid]

i love everything about this video, from thom's spiky hair to the tennis shoe shots and of course the ambiguous words the guy says.

[imgordonfreeman]

does the intro sound like smells like teen spirit to you guys?

[jabbapotamus]

not really

[Jack458111]

its just the idea that someone could say something that would floor everyone and make them all completely apathetic

[lizardshitfuck]

the guy is saying that he has a strange fetish for fucking sidewalks and he politely asks everyone else to lay next to him so it is less embarassing

[xdickwhore]

Lmfao

[duncsjon]

these guys are the forerunners of muse

[benmcmaster]

Sorry, dude. I love Muse, but they are Radiohead's roadies.

[TheWilliamk]

duncsjon, that is ridiculous

[grapesNgrapefruits]

it's time for siesta, he said.

[pervert699]

He is saying, "Radiohead are in that window", hence why he looks up

[Drunkensquid43]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA, WELL PLAYED

[abrahamgbj]

yeah he said: if you lay down here you can see Radiohead playing up there... in that appartment ... that's why everyone collapsed to the floor

[LadyFlutterbee]

I've been DYING to know for YEARS and that's the BEST answer yet! Thanks! :)

[brooklynpage08]

I think he says "You do it to yourself."

Thus they collapse at the realization/loss of willpower.

[Scudsy101]

What he says is irrelivent, we're not supposed to know (thats the whole idea...your supposed to keep thinking about it).

Maybe he does say that,but it doesn't matter.

[VivaLaNegrita]

Lol this video doesn't need figuring out at all, I just come from another video and the man is lying on the ground so he can hear radiohead better. This is because the acoustics on that street are especially terrible.

[MuscatD]

I forgot how great this song was!

[immatureidiot911]

Me too!

[niztrator]

me three!

[pizzacrime]

The question shouldn't be so concentrated on what the words are, but what over-all message CAME from those words. The director PROBABLY (I'm not sure though) didn't script some super-meaningful words, he probably had the actor say "Gobbledy-gook" 3 times or something.

He wants us to think that IF someone were to string together words that blew all our minds, THIS is what their reaction would be. . . .About their mistaken self-importance that is . . .

[pizzacrime]

What did he finally say at the end?

My guess is (loosley imagined at that), it is something in the realm of putting together words in such a way that the meaning is so profound and so clear, about just how insignificant Humans are in the grand scheme of things. . . That their own self-important and narcissistic view of themselves is wrong - REALLY wrong, and all their efforts to be so special has absolutely no bearing on what happens in "the end".

[pizzacrime]

Humans doing what they do best: adding a false importance to everything they do.

"Here, look at me! I see something strange!" (The guy who tripped)

"I demand to know what's going on, and I have the power to MAKE you tell me" (the cop)

"We are so damn important, and so special, that because God happen to put us here in this situation, it surely must mean that we are MEANT to know what is going on, we are THAT important" (the crowd as a whole)

Narcissism . . I think I'm close anyway

[daltonicpilz]

"Just" don't think about what the man is saying

that doesn't matter what he's saying thats what the video is about there are a few things you really dont need to know just leave the things walking their ways

I'd like to know if the guys from radiohead know what he's saying...

[TheToppings]

And there was me thinking the song was about heroin.

[maybetomorrow85]

All the crowd wanted to know is why the man was laying there. They asked and created a hype unaided by the laying man completely on their own. NOW take a look at what is going on right now. If we were all to figure out what the man said, we would learn why he is lying on the floor, just like the crowd in the video, we want to know, we must know why! Without noticing we have become just like the crowd in that video.

[AAinsworth255]

I'm sorry that is totaly wrong.

It is very clear why most people dont understand this song because most people dont understand humans.

The man Lies on the floor in the way of others. He refuses to move and also refuses to justify why he is lieing their. The point is the man is a lier and he is Lieing to get attention or more so sympathy for him falling because he believes he was tripped and if you sit around beliving him, before you know it you will be lieing just like him.

[00Thirdeyed]

abouto 3 years ago i think a different version of this song came out,not by radiohead.does anyone know the name of the artist?i remember the vid was set in some city and there werre animated graffiti

[frostflower789]

Incubus? The song called Warning by them has a similar theme to this one. Except it's more about the end of the world and stuff.

[SophieBabah726]

Seriously what does he say Lmao..:P

[utterbeastage]

'I've just glued myself to the floor . lie down with me so it looks less embarassing and pretend I said something witty'

[loko5555]

"for every minute you remain lay down you will win 100 dollars"

[NeoGeo57]

Haha, that's GENIOUS! It's something people WOULD do in reality! And it IS a bit on the narcissitic/greedy side that Thom is talking about in the song.

[loko5555]

true

[bridgetown1966]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[markowaterpolo]

"I can hear mole people underground."

[SparkyGerbil]

Song & video are fantastic!

[thelogchopper]

nah.. fellas, it's about me really :)

[evolutionisscience]

"If you lay down much like this, you can see Radiohead playing from that window over there."

[scytheslash]

Isn't the guy on the ground supposed to be representing Jesus? Look closely at the dialogue...... and the officer could be like a religious authority...... even the line he says.... you do not know what you ask of me.... god forgive us all.......

[xmelodyx3]

This is an amazing video! <3

[tvvsradio]

this band rocks period

[Zhero06]

Is it just me, or does this band look frigging hilarious?

[soulcalibur22]

that lil readheaded girl can sing

[jpenns]

lolling

[annettecls]

lol!!!!

[soulcalibur22]

she can lol

[USERNAMESANNOYME]

I think that's the point. we have NO idea why the first guy, or any of the others, are lying but we can form our own opinions and take our own guesses. (:

[Timmaigh]

Is this in skate on xbox? I've heard it recently and I didn't know what it was.

[bsp159bsp]

my fav song from these guys...cant wait to see them in march

[bouncysmile]

i like this video. does anyone know what he is saying at the end? can anyone lip read? it's some sort of pyscho analysis thing? to me the guy on the ground is an attention seeker and the others lying down with him is showing that we all like to seek attention too sometimes. i dunno. i just know i enjoying my ham salad sandwich at the minute :)

[dontworrybehappyjuju]

nobody knows the answer to your question- only radiohead. They openly announced they will never tell what the man says- not even when they die (in a will)

[Cazaq]

You do it to yourself.

[NevaBreakTheMINOR]

god this song is legendary! unforgetable! so amazing