OK Computer - Fitter, Happier

[monty1104]

OK, so I just got a lend of OK Computer for a mate, and I noticed that track 7 - Fitter, Happier, is in reeally tiny writing in the track listing, I almost missed it. Does anybody know the story behind this? I assume it isnt simply a typo

 

[Mr Sensitive]

well, it isn't really a song of any kind... it's just an interlude between tracks... that's probably why i'd wager.

 

[Heisenberg_]

Once you have listened through you will understand

 

[gandaal]

Fun Fact: Fitter, Happier was originally meant to be the opening track of OK Computer and was going to be sung by Thom Yorke. However he decided that it was actually more emotional using the computer voice program and was later pushed back to its current position.

 

[BomberGal]

However he decided that it was actually more emotional using the computer voice program and was later pushed back to its current position.

It really is. It's so incredibly haunting with that voice, and then the music coming in quietly in the background...it works well. Achieves its aim even better.

The 'lyrics' are pretty amazing. Powerful stuff really.

 

[AFKAJR]

"tyres that grip in the wet"

 

[SunKing]

Essential to the concept with some amazing lyrics.

 

[AFKAJR]

OK, so I just got a lend of OK Computer for a mate, and I noticed that track 7 - Fitter, Happier, is in reeally tiny writing in the track listing, I almost missed it. Does anybody know the story behind this? I assume it isnt simply a typo

Fitter, happier, more productive, comfortable, not drinking too much
Regular exercise at the gym, 3 days a week
Getting on better with your associate employee contemporaries at ease
Eating well, no more microwave dinners and saturated fats
A patient better driver, a safer car, baby smiling in back seat
Sleeping well, no bad dreams, no paranoia
Careful to all animals, never washing spiders down the plughole
Keep in contact with old friends, enjoy a drink now and then
Will frequently check credit at moral bank, hole in wall
Favors for favors, fond but not in love
Charity standing orders on sundays ring road supermarket

No killing moths or putting boiling water on the ants
Car wash, also on sundays, no longer afraid of the dark or midday shadows
Nothing so ridiculously teenage and desperate nothing so childish
At a better pace, slower and more calculated, no chance of escape
Now self-employed, concerned, but powerless
An empowered and informed member of society, pragmatism not idealism
Will not cry in public, less chance of illness, tires that grip in the wet
Shot of baby strapped in back seat, a good memory still cries at a good film
Still kisses with saliva, no longer empty and frantic like a cat tied to a stick
That's driven into frozen winter shit, the ability to laugh at weakness
Calm fitter, healthier and more productive a pig in a cage on antibiotics