4 Minute Warning by Radiohead

Artist: Radiohead

Genre: Pop

Length: 4:04

Released: 2007

Thom has said that In Rainbows is “about the fucking panic of realizing you’re going to die!” Keeping with that theme, “4 Minute Warning” describes a vague apocalyptic scenario that the narrator is trapped in the middle of. The four-minute warning was a public alert system conceived by the British Government during the Cold War and operated between 1953 and 1992. The name derived from the approximate length of time from the point at which a Soviet nuclear missile attack against the United Ki...

4 Minute Warning lyrics

This is just a nightmare
Soon I'm gonna wake up
Someone's gonna bring me 'round
Running from the bombers
Hiding in the forest
Running through the fields
Laying flat on the ground
Just like everybody
Stepping over hills
Running from the underground
This is your warning
4 minute warning
I don't wanna hear it
I don't wanna know
I just wanna run and hide
This is just a nightmare
But soon I'm gonna wake up
Someone's gonna bring me 'round
This is our warning
4 minute warnin

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