Songs you have your own private interpretation of that's probably completely wrong? (Mine is Reckoner).
I never try to find out what Radiohead songs are actually about, so over the years certain songs have taken on their own meanings personal to me. They work a groove into your mind and one day you realise you hear a whole story in them, even though it's probably not the one the band intended.
Example: Reckoner.
I know this guy who likes to argue that popular music was invented by black culture. He told me to watch this BBC documentary about Radiohead that claimed Radiohead's music is more black influenced than white. I really strongly disagree with this as I think popular music as we know it is an amazing mix of European music theory and African rhythmic energy. It's a beautiful collaboration that we should celebrate (in my opinion). Ultimately I think labels like 'white music' and 'black music' are reductive, but that said, when I listen to Reckoner it seems to me to be a great example of both. The drums and syncopation and the sliding blues note of the verse have to have black roots, and the intense romance of the chord progression in the midsection can only come from Europe. And the two are amazing together - they're transcendent and it depresses me that someone would want to separate them out and reduce them to labels. One day I was thinking about this and listening to Reckoner and I heard - 'Because we separate like ripples on a blank shore'. And that's what the song is about to me now. The Reckoner - who I always thought of as an angel that comes at the end of times - has arrived because we separate ourselves from each other, forgetting that human thriving exists when we remain together. The ripples that come together catch the sunlight and create rainbows, and that's where we find beauty in the world. The 'distractor' is, to me, the internet and social media, such a driving force of division. But we are not to blame - Reckoner isn't a song of judgement or condemnation, it's an absolution at the end of times.
What's your favourite example of a Radiohead song you have your own private interpretation of that's probably comically inaccurate but you're happy with it that way?