“Avoid all eye contact
Do not react
Shoot the messengers
This is a low-flying panic attack”

—  Thom Yorke

Burn the Witch
Lyrics, A Moon Shaped Pool (2016)

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English musician, philanthropist and singer-songwriter 1968

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