Radiohead - Knives Out video free download

Second single from "Amnesiac" (2001), by Radiohead.

Directed by Michel Gondry.

This video has a very low quality because it was uploaded long before YouTube has the HIGH QUALITY feature. If you want a better quality video, check out this link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dU3_oC6kJLY

The whole video was shot in one take in the same set (quite remarkable considering the scene changes required).

Director Michel Gondry said the video was autobiographical, about himself and a girlfriend once he had. However, Thom Yorke said the lyrics were about cannibalism.

This video features Emma de Caunes as Thom's girlfriend.

The video tryed to interpret the surreal imagery and fit it with the song lyrics. Nevertheless, Radiohead vetoed this video from the Director's DVD release because it was about Gondry's personal life and loosely based on the song.

The song was developed during the 18-month Kid A and Amnesiac sessions, and it is legendary for supposedly "having taken 373 days to record". Although "Knives Out" is not similar to Radiohead's earlier rock style as featured on The Bends (1995), it is usually noted as one of the most traditional guitar songs the band has done since 2000.

L Y R I C S

I want you to know

He's not coming back

Look into my eyes

I'm not coming back

So knives out

Catch the mouse

Don't look down

Shove it in your mouth

If you'd been a dog

They would've drowned you at birth

Look into my eyes

It's the only way you'll know I'm telling the truth

So knives out

Cook him up

Squash his head

Put him in the pot

I want you to know

He's not coming back

He's bloated and frozen

Still there's no point in letting it go to waste

So knives out

Catch the mouse

Squash his head

Put him in the pot