Song · The Bends era (1994–96)
Lozenge of Love
Its words were changed radically between the first known airing in 1993 and the record a year later.
My Iron Lung (EP)album- 1994released
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1993–94
larkin's moon
The phrase is Philip Larkin's, from “Sad Steps”, where he stands at a window in the middle of the night and calls the moon a “lozenge of love”. Larkin is a favourite of Jonny Greenwood's.
Thom Yorke and Jonny played an early version, the first known, as a duo on 15 June 1993, in an acoustic set in the auditorium of the FNAC shop in Nancy, and the full band played the town's Ciné 3000 that evening. By the time it was recorded for the EP the words had been changed radically, and the finished words are about not always being there for others, and needing others to be there for you. The finished song, short and almost entirely acoustic, went onto the first of the two “My Iron Lung” CD singles in September 1994, with “The Trickster” and “Punchdrunk Lovesick Singalong”.
1994–95
a handful of nights
The archive has it on six nights between December 1994 and March 1995, one of them an acoustic set in Edinburgh. At the Forum in London on 24 March 1995, the last night of the British tour that March, it was the whole of the third encore.
the video
The recording.· Yorke_watch on youtube →
the record(2)
on stage(1)
Live history
| Times played | 6 shows |
|---|---|
| Live debut | Tuesday 6 December 1994 · Boston, MA |
| Last played | Friday 24 March 1995 · London |
Nights played include broadcasts; opened and closed count gigs only. A cancelled night has no setlist. All setlist stats →
Tabs (1)
sources6
- Philip Larkin, “Sad Steps”, for the title.
- Wikipedia, “My Iron Lung (EP)”, for the release and the other B-sides on the first CD.
- The site's own catalogue note, based on fan archives.
- The 2003 treefingers.com lyric page (
_legacy/lyrics/songs/lozenge_of_love.txt), for the FNAC set and the rewritten words. - Internet Archive, “Thom Yorke & Jonny Greenwood Live - 1993-06-15 FNAC Auditorium, Nancy, France”, for the date of the duo set; Internet Archive, “Radiohead Live - 1995-03-24 Town Forum, London, England”, for the third encore.
- The site's live archive, for the 1994 and 1995 nights.