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Song · On a Friday / pre-Pablo Honey (1986–92)

What Is That You Say?

On the April 1991 tape, next to an early “Stop Whispering”.

Unreleasedalbum

1991released

april 1991

the demo tape

It sits on the April 1991 demo tape alongside “Give It Up” and an early version of “Stop Whispering”, which would be re-recorded twice and released on Pablo Honey. Two songs from that cassette became records. This was not one of them.

the video

A recording of a song they never released.· Radiohea_dwatch on youtube →

details

Type	Unreleased/live-only
Live	no performance on file

Never officially released. What is known of it comes from fan tapes and fan archives, and it is left out of the catalogue counts.

lyrics

No longer caught up
Big church wall
Makin' some noise with a pair of drums
Lying your thoughts out over the sky
Spinning around as you gaze at the sun

(What is that you say?)
Why don't you talk to me?
(What don't you talk to me?)
What is that you say?
(What is that you say?)
Wrapping your fingers 'round my neck

I see the grass is still when we made our beds
I see the thin weed boy ride at this edge
I see the holy Jesus and the Pharoah and the Venus
And the ghost of you and me
Gagged and given up for dead

(What is that you say?)
Why don't you talk to me?
(What don't you talk to me?)
What is that you say?
(What is that you say?)
Wrapping your fingers 'round my neck

There's something up there but I
Don't know what the hell it is
There's something up there
As you guessed
Like the sun

(What is that you say?)
Why don't you talk to me?
(What don't you talk to me?)
What is that you say?
(What is that you say?)
Wrapping your fingers 'round my neck

sources1

The site's own catalogue note, based on Symphony of Ghosts and Citizen Insane.

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