Lead singer Thom Yorke wrote this about how he felt after a show on their 1997 OK Computer tour. The show was in Birmingham, England, and when Yorke got off stage he went to the dressing room and felt completely burned out. The band was becoming famous, but Yorke was feeling helpless and victimized.
Yorke wrote this at home on a piano. The song features a Fender Rhodes electric model.
This is the first song on Kid A. The band thought it was a great song to open the album, which contained songs with lots of synthesizers and very little guitar.
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