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My Iron Lung E.P. Tabs:

My Iron Lung
The Trickster
Permanent Daylight
You Never Wash Up After Yourself »

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Send "You Never Wash Up After Yourself" Ringtone to your Cell Phone

From the My Iron Lung EP

 I must get..   'cos everthings.. Dust settles..  Spiders Crawl..
G------------|   ------------|    ------------|   ------------|X3 (No lyrics first time
D------------|   ------------|    ------------|   ------------|Let every note ring.
A-5--3--2----|   -3--2--0--0-|    ------------|   -3-----3--3-|
E----------3-|   ------------|    -1--3--0--5-|   ----3-------|

Tabbed by Phil.

Send "You Never Wash Up After Yourself" Ringtone to your Cell Phone

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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques


No Picture dalton Wanna Be	#1 by dalton jackson at Dec 10, 2005 at 1:07 AM EST
	i think this is about getting out of your own head, its about separating yourself from your former experiences; in particular it could be about getting past a love affair that has been consuming you. "I must get out once in a while Everything's starting to die The dust settles, the worms dig The spiders crawl over the bed" If you cannot take a step away from yourself and your typicality the dust, the worms, the spiders, these things that exist for and in whats been left over will take over. Dust settles is a cliche, we know what it means. Worms can only live underneath the dust and spiders eat (thus live on) only captured prey thats been wrapped and dead for a while. That leads us into the next verse: "I must get out once in a while I eat all day and now I'm fat Yesterday's meal is hugging the plates You never wash up after yourself" The feeling is of getting nowhere, of being consumed and it's because of yesterday's meal, your past, which of course informs your upcoming - if you eat all day, you'll be fat. The ostensible focus turns from "I" to "you" by the end. There's no canned and happy ending in the song, espcially not if you don't manage to wash up after yourself. When that's the case it's a constant struggle to renew, to enact any sort of change with yourself or anything else. I visualize a someone running in a spinning wheel and counting the miles spent when i hear this, we must get out once in a while, but do we?

No Picture kevin Wanna Be	#2 by kevin dunn at Jul 3, 2006 at 8:27 PM EST
	this has such an english feel to it, i can just imagine a hot summers afternoon feeling lethargic as fuck, this is the music to go with it.

No Picture Jeremy Average	#3 by Jeremy Honaker at Feb 2, 2007 at 9:05 AM EST
	Amazingly beautiful song but totally meaningless in my mind..I always thought this song was a bit of a piss take by Thom Yorke to all his over serious fans who over analyse and take it all too seriously, he's just kind a saying he can make anything sound depressing and moving if you sing it in the right way and not always to take things to serioualy,I mean you never wash up after your self, come on that hardly warrants the tone in which he's singing it, sounds more like something you would sing at a funeral than a messy kitchen sink.That said though every time I listen to it it gives me goose bumps and could bring me to tears almost, purely cos the melody is so hauntingly sung in thoms powerful but fragile voice..what do you think???

No Picture What?Me Worry? Wanna Be	#4 by What?Me Worry? at Feb 24, 2007 at 8:44 AM EST
	Depression, apathy and lethargy

No Picture sam Average	#5 by sam gagnon at Mar 1, 2007 at 9:01 AM EST
	Well put adrenalinegrl. I was gonna say the same thing.

No Picture mike Average	#6 by mike gannon at Jul 1, 2007 at 6:06 PM EST
	also the worms "are dead"

No Picture Justin Wanna Be	#7 by Justin for-a-minute at Oct 10, 2007 at 6:23 PM EST
	i read that this was written after a long tour when thom stayed at home for a long time, the worms where his pets in a farm thing, and basicly describes staying in cos you feel low.