![]() It’s an amazing moment, and fans went bonkers when the band began playing it live. ![]() When Yorke crooned “We’ve been trying to reach you, Thom,” it was both a cheeky nod to Bowie’s “Space Oddity,” swapping the space capsule for an elevator, and the first (thus far only) time he’d used his name in a lyric. Another song the group couldn’t quite perfect in the studio, it was supposedly ditched for fear it’d become a straightjacketing hit like “Creep.” Fair enough. So is “Lift” – maybe more so, with its gently strummed guitar intro, soaring melodic ascents and tenderly avuncular outro (“Today is the first day of the rest of your days/So lighten up, squirt”). But with its sparkling tick-tock rhythm ( Dark Side of the Moon, especially “Time,” looms large), Jonny Greenwood’s swaggering rock-dude guitar squeals, and one of Yorke’s greatest bits of lyrical surrealism (“When you come home, I’ll bake you a cake, made of all their eyes”), it’s an after-the-fact classic. With a trace theme that seems to be about fame’s poison, it would’ve made for a weird narrative fit on OKC. “Man of War” made a fragmented appearance as a work-in-progress, with slightly different lyrics, in the band documentary Meeting People Is Easy, and has been a mule-kick live number since 1995, when it was known as “Big Boots,” Yorke slurring the “drunken confessions” section and erupting with howls to match the crushing guitars (see the Italian TV broadcast clip bouncing around YouTube).
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