each bar of this song has two dotted quavers, a crotchet, and two more dotted quavers. if you think about this in 16ths per bar, this equated to the notes equaling 3, 3, 4, 3, 3. a pyramid has four triangles and one square that make up the shape. this rhythm LITERALLY makes this song a pyramid i looooooove it i looooove radiohead

“It’s just myself talking to myself about myself”

My dad killed himself when I was 14, 8 years ago. This came on the radio a few days after and this song spoke to me. I cried to this song so much and listening to this song brings me back.

The reason you feel comfort when listening to this song is because at the deepest level you know what he's saying is true; there's nothing to fear, nothing to doubt.

The section of comments in Radiohead’s songs are my favourite. I always learn a lot about a bunch of random shit

I still don't know if Radiohead gives me more depression or if it helps me , but i think it's both

I think this is one of the most beautiful songs I have ever heard

8 years ago to the very day I took an overdose in an attempt to end my own life. This is the first song I listened to whilst in hospital and it has stayed with me. Life is fragile, I understand that now. Men don't keep the pain to yourself, talk to someone

Years ago i used to work as a tour guide for a travel company, worked across loads of places around the World taking tourists on the "typical" kind of experience of popular attractions. I was a big Radiohead fan in my youth. Around 2002/3 I was working in Egypt for a few months, living on the outskirts of Cairo. I took a group of American tourists, most of whom couldn't understand my northern english accent! We headed out to Giza, did the whole "posing for photos" thing we always did, then I turned and saw a couple who I just assumed were with our group. Then I thought "shit, I think that's Thom Yorke", then I had that thing where you doubt yourself when you see a celebrity in real life. Then one of the American tourists actually shouted "Thom, I loved Amnesiac even if no one else did" , quick as a flash he said "how did you find Pyramid Song?" I've never laughed so much in my life.

Jumped in the river what did I see A music video in 240p

That sprinkle of drums at 2:13 😍🤦‍♂️ Genius.

My sister killed herself and this was one of her favourite songs. Knowing what the song is about brings me a lot of sadness. Hope she and all sharing her fate find refuge and the peace their souls yearned for.

This song is an enigma to me. I can’t understand how it evokes such a nostalgic comforting feeling to me. Like I’m traversing some new woods that seem and feel oddly home-like. Just me?

I jumped in the river and what did I see? Black-eyed angels swam with me A moon full of stars and astral cars All the things I used to see All my lovers were there with me All my past and futures And we all went to heaven in a little row boat There was nothing to fear and nothing to doubt.. One of the best lyrics I've ever read

RIP my friend. You took your life a few days ago. I hope you found relief from your pain, I hope that all has been resolved. I love you brother.

"And we all went to heaven in a little rowboat; there was nothing to fear, nothing to doubt" ...easily my favorite lyrics of Thom's. My god this song is beautiful.

Great, now I'm depressed but with 1080p

The narrator jumps into the river of existence, of time, and is carried away by its endless flow. Therein, all along the way, he sees the visage of death: black-eyed angels. And in that journey, he beholds a future he'll never see: humans traveling among the stars. But there also are the unsettled things from his past, the people and things in his memories that have decayed into mere figures. All his lovers are there with him, all his pasts and futures, at life's end, all together, all in the same boat, fading into Heaven. There are five lights dancing at the end. Five beats per measure. Five points on a pyramid. The pyramid is a portal to death. It points to the heavens, guiding thereto the souls interred within it. This is the Pyramid Song.

There's no way the dev team for Cyberpunk hadn't watched this video before developing the Pyramid Song sidequest. It's an homage to this video. It has to be.

Radiohead frontman Thom York has said of this track; "That song literally took five minutes to write, but yet it came from all these mad places. [It's] something I never thought I could actually get across in a song and lyrically. [But I] managed it and that was really, really tough. [Physicist] Stephen Hawking talks about the theory that time is another force. It's [a] fourth dimension and [he talks about] the idea that time is completely cyclical, it's always doing this [spins finger]. It's a factor, like gravity. It's something that I found in Buddhism as well. That's what Pyramid Song' is about, the fact that everything is going in circles." According to Colin Greenwood, it was the image of "people being ferried across the river of death" that most affected York. This is reflected in the song's many references to Dante's imaginary journey through Hell, Purgatory and Heaven, Divine Comedy. These include the black-eyed angels, a moon full of stars and jumping into the river.

Pyramid Song is one of the most Genius pieces of music to have ever been recorded.

A truly unbelievable piece of music..the hesitancy of the piano, the eeriness, the apparent discordancy and - of course - Thom's voice all add up to a veritable masterpiece. Probably my favourite Radiohead song

This song played on repeat on my tiny boombox in the pitch black endless nights and was the only solace I knew for a spell during my 20s, it kept me alive honestly. The entire Amnesiac album is sublime.🖤

This and Street Spirit really feel like some supernatural force overtook Thom when he wrote them (he even mentioned this himself). There’s something both deeply unsettling and remarkably comforting about it, like some divine entity’s way of communicating with humans and making them stare death in the eyes - and there’s “nothing to fear, nothing to doubt”

Philip Selway's masterpiece - the drumming of a man at the very top of his game.

I jumped in the river and what did I see? Black-eyed angels swam with me A moon full of stars and astral cars All the things I used to see All my lovers were there with me All my past and futures And we all went to heaven in a little row boat There was nothing to fear and nothing to doubt I jumped into the river Black-eyed angels swam with me A moon full of stars and astral cars And all the things I used to see All my lovers were there with me All my past and futures And we all went to heaven in a little row boat There was nothing to fear and nothing to doubt There was nothing to fear and nothing to doubt There was nothing to fear and nothing to doubt

Radiohead is one of those iconic bands that somehow managed to slip under my radar completely. I've known about them pretty much since they started, but for some reason I never got to exploring their music at all. I found this particular song after playing Cyberpunk 2077 and completing the mission "Pyramid Song", which has been haunting my mind for the past several days. Pyramid Song evokes bittersweet melancholy feelings that I just can't seem to get enough of! :)

I don't think this is depressing at all. It's mystical.

I heard this in Peaky Blinders, and immediately knew it was Thom Yorke singing. I love this , and love that this was in the show.

In What Time Signature is Your Song? Radiohead: Yes

"There was nothing to fear, nothing to doubt" that tattoo on Judy Alvarez from Cyberpunk brought me here, the game may not be perfect and all but it sure as hell attaches you to its characters and story. and judy''s story was one of the best/saddest endings depending on your choices. Her character and voice is just so raw that it feels like its not acted. its just really pure

This reminds me of a Cyberpunk 2077 mission where you go diving into an underwater town flooded by a dam, it was called... WAITAMINUTE

This song is my favorite song of all times. I will leave it in my will for it to play at my funeral. I only listen to it once or twice a year because I want to maintain its power but i think about it a lot. Mystical, magical, spiritual. It is my essence in music form. Thank you Radiohead.

This was one of my 16 songs on my Christmas 2001 generic mp3 player, 128 mb. It was track 1. I used to put this song and 15 others on while I was skiing. I was 15. This is the song that makes me picture vast slopes of uncarved, machine packed snow, a mix of artificial and real, with a large lake in the background, partially frozen at the shore. I always feel like it is 8 am and bitterly cold when this plays, the sun still rising. I can feel my legs go numb beneath the shins if I picture those days we had to turn back because it was too cold. This song is beautiful.

Best Radiohead song ever. Makes my eyes water every time.

this song gives me the feeling of lovecraftian/cosmic horror. it makes me feel like i woke up on a strange planet with a red sky, and there’s nothing left for me to do but walk. walk in the endless sand, surrounded by giant triangular sculptures. i don’t know how to leave. i just want to go home. i feel like there must be a purpose to all of this. i imagine this must be how it feels to see a pyramid. large, immaculate, ominous structures. the feeling that something strange has worshipped these for generations. the sheer impossibility, the alien appearance. it feels like something strange and dark put it there.

"There was nothing to fear, nothing to doubt." That's exactly how I felt when I resigned myself to suicide. I was certain and I was unafraid. A disquieting stillness, safe in the knowledge that there will be no more pain. Seeing this in HD for the first time, I feel that stillness again. But more importantly I feel catharsis. Even 19 years later, this video still makes me cry.

Amazing tribute to this song in Cyberpunk 2077. Going back to your childhood home... at the bottom of a lake. Thank you so much 🙏

I don't know if there's a more powerful song than this. I mean, it's so simple but so heavy at the same time. This song continues to "bloom" everytime I listen to it.

This is definitely one of the best songs ever written. The piano, his voice, the beat, the message, i can't explain how much i love this song.

If you came here in a deep sad moment, just know that you are important to many people, your mistakes will fade away with time and all that makes you sad will be gone someday, somehow. But until then, just know that you are not alone. There is nothing to fear and nothing to doubt.

"There is no rest for me in this world. Perhaps in the next." - Tommy Shelby

I have been told that I have stage 4 lung cancer. This song makes me cry.

Sometimes it seems to me Radiohead has known some sad secret of the universe. And now they look at this world with wisdom and sorrow, and sing their sad songs. And everything is so beautiful, that even full of pain..

My friend introduced me to Radiohead just yesterday, I'm so grateful of him.

Usually I don't listen to Radiohead for the lyrics exactly, although they're always really good. This song I listen to for both the music and the lyrics, which are very poetic and evocative. It makes me feel like there is nothing to fear and nothing to doubt.

Judy's Cyberpunk last mission flashes.

This song, this song right here, was the song that convinced me that Thom Yorke was probably the greatest musical genius of our time.

I've been a HUGE radiohead fan for years and this song in my opinion is one of their best

I'm a Classical artist. This weekend my students are giving a recital. One of them is playing Pyramid Song in the Josh Cohen arrangement (available from Faber music). This student and I LOVE Radiohead. And we are gonna educate the others.

the beauty of music, and all art forms, is that they connect with people, but in a way unexplainable by biology. This song in particular, whether it’s done in a spiritual sense or not, connects with me, and i believe it does for so many people. it’s like it takes your soul out of your body while it’s playing, and surrounds you in the music. “There was nothing to fear, and nothing to doubt” - Thom Yorke, Radiohead

Here’s a quote from Thom Yorke: “That song literally took five minutes to write, but yet it came from all these mad places. [It’s] something I never thought I could actually get across in a song and lyrically. [But I] managed it and that was really, really tough. [Physicist] Stephen Hawking talks about the theory that time is another force. It’s [a] fourth dimension and [he talks about] the idea that time is completely cyclical, it’s always doing this [spins finger]. It’s a factor, like gravity. It’s something that I found in Buddhism as well. That’s what “Pyramid Song” is about, the fact that everything is going in circles.” Perhaps it’s called “Pyramid Song” because of the concept of reincarnation, which according to Thom, is “everything is going in circles.” When we die, we’ll meet our dead lovers and everything in the past come to us. They are both our past and our future. So touching, so lovely.

When I listen to Radiohead it's like the voices in my head finally synchronized and sing a beautiful song. It's peaceful. Some really strange feelings

Such a perfect song for the final episode of Westworld Season 4. Love they brought back Radiohead for that moment.

Cyberpunk 2077 did a great job with the Pyramid Song mission

My dog has died, exactly a year ago. And I like to sit in front of his grave listening to this song. He was the most special thing to me and I can't stop missing it. I love this song so much, and its the one I listen the most, specially today. Love you little baby..

One of the most haunting music ever recorded.

Let 2023 be the year where Radiohead got the wock

this song always gives me chills.. it's a place that exists in me, but listening is the only way there

"Death, the only immortal, who treats us alike, whose peace and refuge are for all. The soiled and the pure, the rich and the poor, the loved and the unloved" -MARK TWAIN

All jokes about the video quality are now outdated, but more importantly you can finally see whats going on

I can't believe how expressive and profound their music is. It is remarkable how the drums sneaks in.

Like so many stories below, this song make me smile, cry and reflect all at the same time. My father died 2 months ago today after a rare destructive illness. This song takes me back to his bedside, holding his hand, he and I together in our little rowing boat Thank you Radiohead x

"There was nothing to fear, nothing to doubt" I get chills every time I hear that line

Something about this song makes my skin tingle

There's a TV programme in Ireland called 'Reeling In The Year's' where they show all the major events of a particular year. This song is played over the Twin Tower attacks segment on September 11th 2001. It's suitably ery.

Thank you cyberpunk

For Judy, 2077.

My favourite radiohead song. That slight delay in the piano is just delicious.

To me, this song represents a moment of clarity in life when the realization is evident that all of the fuss and ruckus is all about nothing because when you physically die it is ALL left behind.

Don't cheat yourself and listen to this song on a really good pair of headphones. A painter starts with a blank canvas and fills it with images from their mind using various brushes and colors. A musician starts with silence and fills it with sounds from their mind using various instruments and their voice/lyrics. Radiohead always amazes me with how they choose to fill silence.

I know what this is, it's just myself talking to myself about myself

One of the most beautiful songs ever? I think so.

This song is timeless because it speaks directly to the listener about our common fear of non-existence and longing for times we can never get back and experience again, except in a dream, but that's okay, because what is a human life but a dream? Fear not. We’ll meet again, once and for all.

Goosebumps starting on the back of my neck rolling like waves down to my feet, hairs awakening to a stand.

Bad luck, Loneliness, inability to utter your emotions, emotional problems, anger issues, depression, insomnia and we start the new year with a pandemic that makes life even worse. But whenever i feel down or am in need of emotional support i put my headphones on and listen to the intelligence and the craft of this band. Their tracks are spellbinding and this one particularily is my Go to sleep track. This song will remain with me forever helped me through a lot

One of their most hauntingly beautiful songs, reminds me in tone and lyrically of Don't Fear the Reaper

The last Mission with Judy in CP77 has this title ❤

En los primeros días de la pandemia cantaba esta canción caminando por las calles vacías. Era inexplicablemente hermoso.

i feel like radiohead is just a group of aliens

i just saw this live as the end of the show, i can die now.

He's singing about life beyond this planet.. it's here! It's everywhere

Words can't describe how this song makes me feel. Thank you Radiohead 🙏

This was such a strange looking video when it released, now in 2020 it looks like the trailer for a cool indie video game with the simple polygon aesthetic of the characters, depressing atmosphere in a post apocalyptic world, cool music, it hits all the boxes of indie gaming gold.

Here because of Radiohead.

In my opinion the is the most accomplished and beautiful song ever written by a band in modern times. It invokes feelings of immense joy and immense sadnes all at the same time. I feel despair and I feel hope. It brings me on a journey that I don't want to partake in, but still, I am glad that I did. It makes me think of life, death, and life again. I could go in depth about piano , syncopation and string arrangements and such, but the whole of this song just ascends beyond any of that. An absolute masterpiece

So raw, deep, dark, sad, somehow not lonely! What a vibe

I'm 67 and I love this track it gives me goose bumps......

Got goosebumps hearing this at the end of Peaky Blinders. What a perfect song for that moment.

"It´s just myself talking to myself about myself" Tommy Shelby ,This song gives me the chills

The "And we all went to heaven in a little row boat" part of this song is a nod to Tom Waits. It's a phrase used in Tom Waits' song Clap Hands. It is an homage to Tom Waits, who inspired him as he came out of a depressed period.

I had an insanely intense acid trip in the summer of 2001 when Amnesiac came out. I had been listening to it nonstop, particularly this song. As I was tripping I looked up into the night sky and the stars "moved" and formed a pyramid....I will never forget that moment as long as I live!!

I cant stop crying. My dad just passed away on the 27th. there was a lot of pain in the end of things. I hope the angels show him love for his life was not happy. I am sorry dad and I miss you.

What a song. So gentle, yet so moving. This is definitely up there with Radiohead’s best work.

One of my favorite Radiohead songs to drive late at night on a lonely road.

Idk why no one is talking about the visual art in this video, it suits the song perfectly, amazing song

It's really funny how Cyberpunk 2077 directly quotes this song and this video

anyone coming back to this song after westworld season 4 finale? amazing version of the song on that for anyone who didn't catch it and perfectly backdropped by a sentient being jumping into the river with their soul

Wtf, don't remember this song having 14 million views a few months ago.

The scene from Peaky Blinders where Tommy gets shitfaced and experiences PTSD (Season 4, episode 6)