As reported by ateasweb.com, here are the initial “best-effort” to get all the lyris down for The King of Limbs. See an error? Let us know in the comments!
Open your mouth wide
The universe will sigh
And while the ocean blooms
It’s what keeps me alive
So why does it still hurt?
Don’t blow your mind with whys
I’m moving out of orbit
Turning in somersaults
A giant turtle’s eyes
As jellyfish float by
Our Radiohead holiday came a day early, as many of us were surprised to find the newest Radiohead album “The King of Limbs” waiting for us to nervously download this morning! Side-stepping unwanted leaks and any lengthy media build up, the band announced the record this week and self-released the album digitally today with the physical copy to follow (presumably sometime this spring). Available in both WAV and MP3, and for far cheaper than a standard 10 bucks iTunes has made us accustomed to.
The album’s depth is such that any immediately review would be unwise, but here’s a quick breakdown of the record.
The album is eight tracks long, and clocks in at a short 37 minutes. The track list is as follows:
In an article written for Cracked.com, the recent OK Computer/In Rainbows mind-melding conspiracy is given a full review, explaining the eerie similarities and simpatico relationship between OK Computer and In Rainbows, and Radiohead’s subtle emphasis on the number 10.
Basically, the theory purports that In rainbows was written as an accompaniment to the previously released OK Computer (10 years earlier). As the theory goes, combine the two records in one playlist (by basically alternating every-other song) and set a 10-second crossfade in between tracks.
A few interesting things to listen for:
After Radiohead’s “Nude Remix Project” was so successful, they decided to let everyone have a go at “Reckoner,” a fan-favorite from their latest album In Rainbows.
The individual ‘stems’ are available for purchase, to make things a little less difficult. The ‘stems’ that you could purchase are bass, lead vocals, backing vocals, guitar, piano/strings and drums. You can do what ever you want to the stems and add what ever you would like to your remix (provided you have the necessary software). Read the rest of this entry »
The following page, called ‘Little Crocodiles!’, appeared in radiohead.com during the Kid A period. This text would be edited and restructured to form most of the actual lyrics to ‘Optimistic’. It also contains a line, that would be used in ‘Where I End And You Begin’ (which was written during the same period as ‘Optimistic’), "the dinosaurs roam the earth"
flies are buzzing round my head
flies are buzzing round my head
picking up every last crumb
the big fish eat the little ones
the big fish eat the little ones
not my problem give me some.
not my problem give me some.
you can try the best you can try the best you can
money for the generals.
how could you be so naive?
digging deep into your pockets
the will of allah
the word of god
you can try the best you can try the best you can
the best you can is good enough.
why dont you stop beating yourself up?
this one isnt jesus
turn that hippy bullshit off.
i find it difficult to be optimistic.
id really like to help you but
its just not convenient
call me back
some other time.
burnt spaghetti wires
i am an optimist
the best you can
is good enough
this will not save you
will not put the world to rights
will not solve your
marriage
this wont be on sky tv
i dont believe you you you mean it
the best you can is good this wont tell you what you need to knowoptimistic foolish
arseholes tell you what you want to know
this one drops a payload
this wont cure your loneliness
this wont bring the disappeared
fodder for the animals
living on animal farm
you can try the best you can you can try the best yo can the best you can is
flies are swarming round my face.
flies are swarming round my face.
not now man i got problems of my own.
howd i ever get into this mess?
unless ofcourse youre trying to hide something.
the flies buzz around me
picking up evry last crumb
when will you ever get out of bed? the optimist will drink and drive
the really nervous wont survive
optimistic auto-suggestion.
hello
hellomade no difference at all
nothing has changed at all
this is the new cold war
same as the cold old warthe names have changed the innocent
the innocent have been used to thicken the soupy
the soupy can be used to feed the troops from tin cansfood is food and sex is sex
ivehadmy fill i want to defect.
dinosaurs roam the earth
shot by monks
diplomatic answers to diplomatic questions.the murdered will come back to life
tthe blind will cut you with a carving knife
the evidence is there too see
if you turned a blind eye now
your not even human
whats your real motivation? cnsequences ff your actions.
red ants black ants no idea what your doing
viruses mutating
mind constipation
turn that hippy bullshit off.
cogs sarcy cogs swrking round
‘Treefingers’ was added to the tracklist of Kid A relatively late in the process of finding the right order of songs for the album. It was created by Thom using chords Ed had played on his guitar and processing and rearranging them digitally.
In a july 97 interview in Vancouver, Thom and Colin mentioned the famous Toronto Opera House Gig from June 97. Thom said that he was writing ‘that new song’ during that time and then they both chimed in to say that the chorus of it was: ‘I’m not here, this isn’t happening’.
The song has undertones of their slightly disastrous Glastonbury Festival ’97 performance – strobe lights, blown speakers, both of which Thom fell foul of, as well as the fireworks let off during the set. This fits with "I’m not here this isn’t happening", as well as the "You throw me out (onto stage?)".
The phrase that can be seen in this image was the starting point for the lyrics. Apparently Michael Stipe gave this sort of Mantra to Thom: 
The roots of this song go back to the On A Friday days. Apparently Thom wrote the bass riff around the age of 16. The instrumental track was rehearsed in early 1994 for The Bends, but remained unreleased and wasn’t performed live.
The band reconsidered the track in 1997, and decided to give it a try when it was time to record b-sides for the No Surprises singles. This november 1997 session yielded a new version of ‘Palo Alto’, which was released on the single, and also a recording that would become the actual basic track for ‘The National Anthem’. As Colin was not present at this november 1997 session, Thom plays bass on the studio version that was released on Kid A.
The track, that was still an instrumental at that point, was deemed too good for b-side release by the band, and was put on the shelf for the time being. They would return to it in 1999, by which time Thom had already added lyrics, which he apparently had taken out of cut up lines from a top hat.
‘The National Anthem’ was mentioned in two entries of Ed’s diary:
July 22, 1999
thom arrives & plays a new song on the acoustic. sounds great but has no name, so now on referred to as the song with no name. we move on to “lost at sea/in limbo” after only nine months work its starting to sound like its getting somewhere. good in fact. The others sound ok too.( everything, everyone/the national anthem). highlight of the day is attempting 3 part harmonies on “neil young *9″- not the harmonies themselves, but phil cracking up because he feels a bit like that drummer from the eagles. a fucking brilliant rehearsal. its great to be in our band.
This drawing by either Thom or Stanley appeared in the scrapbook section of radiohead.com and probably stems from the Kid A period: 
This page appeared in radiohead.com during the Kid A period under the title ‘FRoZZen’. Apart from lyrical fragments connected to ‘In Limbo’ and ‘Knives Out’ it also contains a reference to the “ventriloquist”:
Thom has explained in interviews that the major inspiration for this track was a breakdown he had right after Radiohead’s gig at the NEC in Birmingham on november 19th 1997.
This page appeared in radiohead.com during the Kid A period under the title ‘Fore!’. During this period Thom would usually start forming lyrics to a song by pulling cut up lines out of a top hat, and this following text appears to be a source not only for this song, but also for ‘Cuttooth’, where the line “I will live a wallpaper life” would end up slightly modified. The text itself was probably written shortly after the NEC incident, as it contains references to Thom’s hearing damage that day: