A song about the futility of life, the pointlessness of existence and the certainty of death.

The song is a fitting end to a quite depressing album in which Yorke ends with a glimmer of hope with a suggestion for how to deal with it all. Although the song adds to the pointlessness and hopelessness of life (and death) it also sends the message in the outro that love is the answer to all that life has to offer.
Throughout the whole album, such a happy note on (conscious) life cannot be found (Nice dream is a more happy song, but it’s about escaping life into dreaming).

The music video is all in black-and-white, which is in high contrast with Fake Plastic Trees’s vibrant colors and Just’s sharp contrasts. Additionally, the music video plays with the speeding up and slowing down of the images.

In the video Thom seems to commit suicide, jumping from a trailer. What follows are a set of incoherent images in which time and place are twisted alternated by dancers in black which seem to represent death.

The music video seems to send the message that we should not try to make too much sense of it all, since life nor death does not seem to make sense.