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Rock music is, is a necessary evil, like beating my children with penny loafers

Thom Yorke

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Thom Yorke
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: October 7
Composer
Ecologist
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Singer-Songwriter
Thomas Edward Yorke
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I once wrote a song so beautiful that I myself couldn't sing it. It's called Plastic Government Cheese Swan, and it's about how the world is plastic and full of government cheese swans.
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It's the Devil's way now, There is no way out, You can scream and you can shout, It is too late now.
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Open your mouth wide A universal sigh.
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My parents mistook me for a sack of potatoes so I sat in the corner of the kitchen for the first 13 years of my life. My birth name is Thom Potatoes.
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Like a fat raccoon rummaging through the garbage, that how I eat. Like a f-king fat raccoon.
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