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lyricsFitter Happier More productive Comfortable Not drinking too much Regular exercise at the gym (3 days a week) Getting on better with your associate employee contemporaries At ease Eating well (no more microwave dinners and saturated fats) A patient better driver A safer car (baby smiling in back seat) Sleeping well (no bad dreams) No paranoia Careful to all animals (never washing spiders down the plughole) Keep in contact with old friends (enjoy a drink now and then) Will frequently check credit at (moral) bank (hole in wall) Favors for favors Fond but not in love Charity standing orders On sundays ring road supermarket (No killing moths or putting boiling water on the ants) Car wash (also on sundays) No longer afraid of the dark Or midday shadows Nothing so ridiculously teenage and desperate Nothing so childish At a better pace Slower and more calculated No chance of escape Now self-employed Concerned (but powerless) An empowered and informed member of society (pragmatism not idealism) Will not cry in public Less hance of illness Tires that grip in the wet (shot of baby strapped in back seat) A good memory Still cries at a good film Still kisses with saliva No longer empty and frantic Like a cat Tied to a stick That's driven into frozen winter shit (the ability to laugh at weakness) Calm Fitter, healthier and more productive A pig In a cage On antibiotics |
available on: ok computer
notes: Jonny Greenwood: "this was the original text which we already put on our internet-site a year ago. We put all kinds of things on it. Things we like, things which we don't know what to do with it them. One day, Thom was playing with his new computer and he found out he could let the machine talk. When he programmed the text from Fitter, Happier, it sounded very beautiful on a sort of alarming tone. It was something weird. It wasn't melodramatic, but it wasn't cold either. The music is a combination of a piano through a memo-recorder and a 24 headed string-orchestra, who played something i wrote two days before."
Thom Yorke: "the most escapist moment of OK Computer is in Fitter Happier. We put the lyrics in the computer with a talk-program. Just standard software. The text is now spoken by an emotionless computervoice. I see it as the ultimate dissociation with the lyrics and your responsibilty for it. See it as something between a statement and an experiment."
Thom (again):"I'm not standing behind
the lyrics anymore. Sometimes your ideas get entangled with
other ideas, and then you have to apologize for the original
idea because it doesn't make sense anymore.That's what happened
with 'Fitter Happier'. Now, I listen to the piano part."
piano scores:
Here
are two pages of piano scores [thanks Mary]
