“While you make pretty speeches
I'm being cut to shreds
You feed me to the lions
A delicate balance”

—  Thom Yorke

"Like Spinning Plates"
Lyrics, Amnesiac (2001)

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English musician, philanthropist and singer-songwriter 1968

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