2+2=5 by Radiohead (With lyrics)

Lyrics Here

Are you such a dreamer?
To put the world to rights?
I'll stay home forever
Where two & two always
makes up five

I'll lay down the tracks
Sandbag & hide
January has April's showers
And two & two always
makes up five

It's the devil's way now
There is no way out
You can scream & you
can shout
It is too late now
Because

You have not been
paying attention

I try to sing along
I get it all wrong
Ezeepeezeeeezeepeeezee
NOT
I swat em like flies but
Like flies the burgers
Keep coming back
NOT
Maybe not
"All hail to the thief"
"But I am not!"
"Don't question my authority
or put me in the dock"
Cozimnot!
Go & tell the king that
The sky is falling in
When it's not
Maybe not.

(ahh diddums.)
SONG INFORMATION
Released:
June 2003
Found on:
Hail to the Thief

This song was premiered in San Sebastian, Spain on July 31, 2002. The song's alternative title is "The Lukewarm".

The song's title "2 + 2 = 5" recalls the symbol of unreality from George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. In the book, inhabitants of an authoritarian future state are made to engage in doublethink, replacing their own conscience and beliefs with those imposed from above. At the end of the novel, the protagonist's individuality is demolished, as he avows that two and two are, in fact, five. The song contains similar inaccuracies including January bringing April showers.

With lyrics like "All hail to the thief, but I'm not" and "Don't question my authority" there have been repeated suggestions from many musical critics that the song is based on the controversial election of George W. Bush in 2000. The band have strenuously denied this, saying in one interview, "It would be too easy for us to insult George Bush".

The song reached number 15 on the UK singles chart.

The first part of the song is in a 7/4 time signature, which switches to 4/4 about 1 minute 22 seconds in (after the words "Two and two always makes five...").

At the beginning of the song, the listener hears guitarist Jonny Greenwood plugging his guitar in, and lead vocalist Thom Yorke is heard saying "That's a nice way to start, Jonny...".

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[tomas rubin]

Me too, a fantastic book from an incredible writer. He wrote it in 1949, incredible visual thought about the future society. Now in Mexico, we're living the establishment of a dictatorship by the media and government. We really need external help 'cause no information is runnin' outside the country neither inside, only through social networks. It's like living a political prophecy. Every sentence of the book is incarnating in our contemporary world.

[thatoneguy855]

War is peace, Freedom is slavery, Ignorance is strength.

[Simon0]

Maybe they can but they need a bit more time to work on this sum.

[kingofcobwebs]

It just goes on and on.

[Led Zeppelin Zozo]

what's clear about Radiohead is this: they can write legendary albums....but can't add.

[Mike Dubeck]

If children were taught that 2+2=5 since birth they would believe that it does when in fact it makes 4. What this song represents is the deception being place upon us through media, education, and other people with bad intentions. Thom is telling us to pay attention because we are all being deceived by false truths.

[arg4189]

none of radiohead went to oxford university

[derazne]

Actually, he wrote it in 1948, but it was published in 1949

[Simon0]

18 people havent been paying attention? (sorry i had to do it)

[looneYeah]

shameful that you haven't already.

novel of the century if you ask me.

[John Swantek]

thank you