Song of the Week #4 - No Surprises, Radiohead

Thanks to Andrea for choosing this week's track, No Surprises from the 1997 album, OK Computer by Radiohead, which is ranked 162nd in Rolling Stone Magazine's list of the Top 500 albums of all time. Think about how the song could help you with your English - look at the vocabulary (especially fixed expressions, metaphors, idioms and collocations), the pronunciation (rhythm and rhyme), the meaning, importance, background to the song or what the song means to you personally.







A heart that's full up like a landfill
A job that slowly kills you
Bruises that won't heal

You look so tired and unhappy
Bring down the government
They don't, they don't speak for us
I'll take a quiet life
A handshake of carbon monoxide

No alarms and no surprises
No alarms and no surprises
No alarms and no surprises
Silent, silent

This is my final fit, my final bellyache with

No alarms and no surprises
No alarms and no surprises
No alarms and no surprises please

Such a pretty house, such a pretty garden

No alarms and no surprises (let me out of here)
No alarms and no surprises (let me out of here)
No alarms and no surprises please (let me out of here)