One of ra­dio­head's most fa­mous songs, it laments the fu­til­i­ty of life, and the fact that the dev­il will al­ways have the last laugh.

The song should be con­sid­ered in its en­tire­ty, not anal­ysed, as in­di­cat­ed by the line "all these things are one to swal­low whole."

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