10 Greatest Ever Radiohead Songs
4. Daydreaming
Ambient and textured to the extreme, Daydreaming serves as one of the many highlights on Radiohead’s A Moon Shaped Pool. A beautifully haunting piano ballad, the song is numbing and entrancing in equal measure.
Daydreaming is once again a Radiohead song that explores the acceptance of inevitability. “It’s too late, the damage is done”. The first verse explores both the strength and the weaknesses of those who aspire and dream. The dreams serve as inspiration for furthering understanding, but they are flawed by the fact that once these questions are pondered, the original mind state can never be returned to.
The ending to the song sounds like it has been reversed, with many believing Thom Yorke is saying “Half my life”. This has been interpreted by some to be a reference to his relationship to Rachel Owen for 23 years. At the time of their split, he was 47 years of age.
The entire song is open to many different interpretations, but nonetheless it remains an essential track in the band’s later career.