Exit Music (for a film)
wake from your sleep
the drying of your tears
today we escape
we escape

pack and get dressed
before your father hears us
before all hell breaks loose

breathe keep breathing
dont loose your nerve
breathe keep breathing
i can't do this alone

sing us a song
a song to keep us warm
there's such a chill such a chill

you can laugh
a spineless laugh
we hope your rules and wisdom choke you

now we are one
in everlasting peace

we hope that you choke that you choke
we hope that you choke that you choke
we hope that you choke that you choke
premier live
10 octobre 1996, Londres
version originale
21 mai 1997, OK Computer
4:24
reprises
Art of the Trio Vol. 3, Brad Mehldau
4:23
Art of the Trio Vol. 4, Brad Mehldau
±8:00
17 avril 2001, Plastic Mutations, motor industries
4:07
26 juin 2001, Anyone Can Play Radiohead, Miranda Sex Garden
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23 octobre 2001, Strung Out
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27 octobre 2003, True love waits, Christopher O'Riley
4:28

Pendant la tournée 1996 avec Alanis Morissette, Baz Luhrmann a envoyé au groupe la dernière demi-heure de son Romeo+Juliet en cassette, et leur a demandé d'écrire un morceau pour le générique de fin. Ils ont tous été impressionnés par le clip, et Thom a écrit la chanson. Il a enregistré les voix en extérieur, dans la cour de pierre de leurs studios de Bath. Le groupe ne voulait pas vraiment sortir le titre comme un extrait de la bande originale, donc ils ont autorisé deux remixes de Talk Show Host pour le double disque. L'inspiration pour le morceau vient essentiellement du moment où Juliette (jouée par Claire Danes) tient un Colt .45 contre sa tempe dans l'église.

Thom
We wrote this for Romeo and Juliet. I saw the Zeffirelli version when I was 13 and I cried my eyes out, because I couldn't understand why, the morning after they shagged, they didn't just run away. It's a song written for two people who should run away before all the bad stuff starts. A personal song.
On a écrit ça pour Roméo & Juliette. J'ai vu la version de Franco Zeffirelli quand j'avais 13 ans et j'ai pleuré toutes les larmes de mon corps, parce que je ne pouvais pas comprendre pourquoi, le matin après leur première nuit, ils ne se sont pas enfuis. C'est une chanson écrite pour deux personnes qui devraient partir avant que les mauvais trucs ne commencent. Une chanson personnelle.
Select, juillet 1997
Claire Danes as Juliet......the poissons as themselves...
ROMEO+JULIET
...purple heart...quand couler et mourir deviennent des habitudes... 
wake from your dreams
the drying of your tears
today we escape
we escape

	                                          pack and get dressed
	                                          before your father hears us
	                                          before all hell breaks loose

                    breathe keep breathing
                    dont loose your nerve
                    breathe keep brreathing
                    i cant do this alone

  sing us a song
  a song to keep us warm
  theres sucha chill sucha CHILL

                    you can laugh
                    a spineless laugh
                    we hope your rules and wisdom choke you





          now we are one
          in everlasting peace


                              we hope that you choke that you choke
                              we hope that you choke that you choke
                              we hope that you choke that you choke
                              sddksuhvs**exit music(for a film)
Ed
Thom looked at Shakespeare's original text and tried to incorporate it into the song but he gave up on that quickly. But I still think it fits with the film amazingly well, especially as the lyrics are actually quite personal.
Thom a lu le texte de Shakespeare et a essayé de l'incorporer dans la chanson - mais il a rapidement abandonné. Cela dit, je pense toujours que ça correspond étonnament bien au film, surtout que les paroles sont en fait très personnelles.
Colin
What we've always done is aim ourselves towards other people's music that we've fallen in love with. It's like a lovers' flattery, we try to emulate these people and always fall short. We aim for the stars - and we hit just north of Oxford, ha ha! Like on Exit Music we tried to do a Portishead thing at the end, but it's all really stilted and leaden and mechanical - and it's brilliant! Perfect for that bit of the song.
VOX Magazine, septembre 1997

À noter qu'au premier vers, le livret indique : wake from your dreams et en fait on entend : wake from your sleep. On ne sait pas à quoi est dû ce changement.

Thom
Exit music is the first song where every note makes me happy.
Jonny
Presented with a song like Exit Music, it's impossible to know what to add without actually making it worse. How can you play along when it's already there?
Colin
Soundtracks are a bit naff nowadays: they just stick on some contemporary music. We wanted to be a bit more intelligent than that.
listereprise
page stuck in a frozen lake du site officiel (gallery.html)
exit song (for a film)* cannot be listened to more than once in a row. which made recording it easy. or not. but what film?
enregistrement
Canned Applause
équipement mobile
production
Nigel Godrich
ingénieur
Nigel Godrich
mixage
Mayfair, Abbey Road, Air Lyndhurst, Courtyard
and the church using the wonders of a digital and analog age
master
Chris Blair
Abbey Road