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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 contemporariesn 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) 

 

favours for favours 

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 i nformed 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 

 

 

-Radiohead , 1997 OK Computer