This eerie, gently insistent piano ballad finds Thom Yorke lamenting his split from longterm partner Rachel Owen. Dreamers They never learn They never learn Beyond the point Of no return Daydreamers like Yorke can become disconnected and blind to other people's needs. He laments on this song that because of his his tendency to retreat to an inner world, the relationship has deteriorated, "beyond the point of no return", and it's "too late, the damage is done."
The outro is comprised of slowed down backward vocals, in which Yorke sings, "Half of my life." This is a reference to the Radiohead frontman having spent half his life with Rachel Owen. They began dating in the early 1990s when they were both at Exeter University and split 23 years later when Yorke was 46.
The music video was directed by filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson. Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood has scored several of Anderson's films including Inherent Vice, The Master and There Will Be Blood.
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