Don’t even try, Yorke says. Don’t get any big ideas, any silly dreams. Look at you. You’re a speck of dust in the cosmos, if that. Who do you think you are? To the universe, you’re just a bunch of noise, if that.
You are what you believe about youself. If you think that way you attract it to yourself and you become the nothing you pondered on. If you think bigger of what you can become and pay the price to get there then you will get there.
You got to get you mind out of the gutter and get a bigger and brighter vision for your life.
But you can’t possibly think that by thinking bigger of yourself you can achieve that image? It’s so false, and I can’t lie to myself like that. I’d rather live in the negative, so that when something positive happens, I can be pleasantly surprised. Nothing good has ever come to me from believing I can do something I clearly can’t. I don’t want visions, I want truth.
That’s probably what prevents positive things from happening to you, in the way richness doesn’t make happy, but happiness is likely to make you rich. I hope you don’t just see yourself that way but also anyone else, because it might enable you to reach a particular kind of self-confidence which might help you to get better. If you stretch the thought, you also can’t make mistakes or if you do, they don’t matter anyway.
I wish you all the best.
Sincerely,
-R.
That’s not the meaning behind this song, but I see why you would interpret it that way.
Unfortunately it is true, we are all a bunch of nothings running around like we’re somethings. But that’s on a large scale. We live on a small scale, and that’s what we should focus on, only the things we have control over. The rest is not for us to worry about.
Live your life the best you can for all we know that’s all we’ll ever get.
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You are what you believe about youself. If you think that way you attract it to yourself and you become the nothing you pondered on. If you think bigger of what you can become and pay the price to get there then you will get there.
You got to get you mind out of the gutter and get a bigger and brighter vision for your life.
Yes, because what you talk about is just “so easy”.
But you can’t possibly think that by thinking bigger of yourself you can achieve that image? It’s so false, and I can’t lie to myself like that. I’d rather live in the negative, so that when something positive happens, I can be pleasantly surprised. Nothing good has ever come to me from believing I can do something I clearly can’t. I don’t want visions, I want truth.
That’s probably what prevents positive things from happening to you, in the way richness doesn’t make happy, but happiness is likely to make you rich. I hope you don’t just see yourself that way but also anyone else, because it might enable you to reach a particular kind of self-confidence which might help you to get better. If you stretch the thought, you also can’t make mistakes or if you do, they don’t matter anyway.
I wish you all the best.
Sincerely,
-R.
That’s not the meaning behind this song, but I see why you would interpret it that way.
Unfortunately it is true, we are all a bunch of nothings running around like we’re somethings. But that’s on a large scale. We live on a small scale, and that’s what we should focus on, only the things we have control over. The rest is not for us to worry about.
Live your life the best you can for all we know that’s all we’ll ever get.