Exit Music (For A Film)

This was written for the 1996 movie Romeo and Juliet starring Leonardo Di Caprio. While Radiohead were on tour with Alanis Morissette, Baz Luhrmann, who directed the movie, sent them a tape of the last part of the film and asked them to write some music for the closing credits (hence the name "exit music"). The band liked what they saw and came up with this.

The story in the song is about Romeo and Juliet, and their chance of romantic escape. Unfortunately, you can't change literature, and they don't make it. As the song says... "Now we are one, In everlasting peace"

Radiohead also contributed "Talk Show Host" to the movie, which was used in a scene when Romeo is first spotted.