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==Artwork== [[File:Paranoid Android CD2 back.JPG|thumb|The back of the CD2 release of "Paranoid Android" illustrates the release's use of images from the ''OK Computer'' artwork, the change in tint from the CD1 release, and the "cathedral of white" message.]] [[Stanley Donwood]] worked with Yorke to design the artwork for most of the "Paranoid Android" releases,<ref>Footman, 2007. p. 126</ref> although both the images and design were ultimately credited to "dumb computers".<ref name="CD1" /><ref name="CD2" /> The cover illustration accompanying the single depicts a hand-drawn dome that contains the phrase "God loves his children, yeah!", the last line of the song, written above on the uppermost plane. Images from the ''OK Computer'' artwork reappear, including a pig and two human figures shaking hands. Writer [[Tim Footman]] suggested that these images are borrowed from Pink Floyd, respectively corresponding to the [[Pink Floyd pigs]] and ''[[Wish You Were Here (Pink Floyd album)|Wish You Were Here]]'' cover.<ref>Footman (2007). p. 52</ref> The two versions of the single have different messages on the reverse. Both the CD1 and [[Japan]]ese releases state: {{quote|To kill a [[demon]] made of wet sawdust. This sort of demon is almost impossible to kill the only way to do it is to cover its face with wet bread and karate chop its head off otherwise you are in trouble and so is the neighbourhood. Wet sawdust demons like to terrorise. N.B. pressing its face into wet bread that is on the ground works best though you can get a result just by throwing the bread at its face.<ref name="CD1">(1997) Artwork for "Paranoid Android" (CD1) by Radiohead. Parlophone (CDODATAS01).</ref><ref>(1997) Artwork for "Paranoid Android" by Radiohead. Toshiba EMI (TOCP40038).</ref>}} Written on the back of the CD2 single is: {{quote|A cathedral of white in a suburban shanty town two up two down houses with just the [[asbestos]] and the skeletons left.<ref name="CD2">(1997) Artwork for "Paranoid Android" (CD2) by Radiohead. Parlophone (CDNODATA01).</ref>}}
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