What's Thom Yorke mumbling about at the end of 'Daydreaming'?

Your guess is as good as mine. Or Thom Yorke's.
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Radiohead's new song "Daydreaming" -- which dropped Friday with an eerie, Paul Thomas Anderson-directed video -- is a very, very slow build. 

Beginning with a minimal piano riff, Thom Yorke's voice doesn't come in until around 1:20. Tortured vocals appear the 2-minute mark, and half a minute later is when the tempo finally starts the quicken. Ominous strings show up 5 minutes in. 


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It all builds up to something, but we aren't sure what it is -- what it sounds like is 30 seconds of Thom Yorke mumbling and growling indecipherably. 

Slate reversed the outro, and it makes a little more sense. The site speculates he's saying either "Half of my life" or "I've found my love," but there's no way of being sure. This is Radiohead, after all. 


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