Editing Kid A (section)

=== Lyrics ===
Yorke's lyrics on ''Kid A'' are less personal than on earlier albums, and instead incorporate abstract and surreal themes.<ref name="when-do-I-start">{{cite web |last=Adams |first=Tim |date=23 February 2013 |title=Thom Yorke: 'If I can't enjoy this now, when do I start?' |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/feb/23/thom-yorke-radiohead-interview |access-date=26 April 2015 |website=[[The Guardian]] |archive-date=28 June 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150628075705/http://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/feb/23/thom-yorke-radiohead-interview |url-status=live }}</ref> He [[Cut-up technique|cut up]] phrases and assembled them at random, combining [[Cliché|cliches]] and banal observations; for example, "Morning Bell" features repeated contrasting lines such as "Where'd you park the car?" and "Cut the kids in half".<ref>{{Cite web |last=Mitchum |first=Rob |date=25 August 2009 |title=Radiohead: ''Kid A: Special Collectors Edition'' |url=https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/13385-kid-a-special-collectors-edition/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150703063410/http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/13385-kid-a-special-collectors-edition/ |archive-date=3 July 2015 |access-date=4 July 2015 |website=[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]] |df=dmy-all}}</ref> Yorke denied that he was "trying to get anything across" with the lyrics, and described them as "like shattered bits of mirror ... like pieces of something broken".<ref name="Yamasaki-2000" /> 

Yorke cited [[David Byrne]]'s approach to lyrics on ''Remain in Light'' as an influence: "When they made that record, they had no real songs, just wrote it all as they went along. Byrne turned up with pages and pages, and just picked stuff up and threw bits in all the time. And that's exactly how I approached ''Kid A''."<ref name="REYNOLDS" /> Radiohead used Yorke's lyrics "like pieces in a collage ... [creating] an artwork out of a lot of different little things".<ref name="monsters" /> The lyrics are not included in the liner notes, as Radiohead felt they could not be considered independently of the music,<ref name="NYROCK2">{{cite interview|subject=Radiohead|interviewer=''NY Rock''|date=December 2000|url=http://www.nyrock.com/interviews/2000/radiohead.asp|access-date=1 April 2007|archive-date=31 December 2005|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051231222751/http://www.nyrock.com/interviews/2000/radiohead.asp|url-status=dead|title=Radiohead: They're Not So Angst-ridden Once You Get to Know Them}}</ref> and Yorke did not want listeners to focus on them.<ref name="REYNOLDS" />

Yorke wrote "Everything in Its Right Place" about the depression he experienced on the ''OK Computer'' tour, feeling he could not speak.<ref>{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/radiohead-making-music-that-matters-84574/|title=Radiohead: Making Music That Matters|last=Fricke|first=David|author-link=David Fricke|date=2 August 2001|magazine=[[Rolling Stone]]|language=en-US|access-date=6 January 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190106104332/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/radiohead-making-music-that-matters-84574/|archive-date=6 January 2019|url-status=live}}</ref> The refrain of "How to Disappear Completely" was inspired by [[R.E.M.]] singer [[Michael Stipe]], who advised Yorke to relieve tour stress by repeating to himself: "I'm not here, this isn't happening".<ref>{{cite magazine|url = https://www.rollingstone.com/music/pictures/readers-poll-the-10-best-radiohead-songs-20111012/10-how-to-disappear-completely-0823981|title = 'How To Disappear Completely' – Readers' Poll: The 10 Best Radiohead Songs|magazine = [[Rolling Stone]]|date = 12 October 2011|access-date = 8 March 2015|url-status = live|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150117193945/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/pictures/readers-poll-the-10-best-radiohead-songs-20111012/10-how-to-disappear-completely-0823981|archive-date = 17 January 2015|df = dmy-all}}</ref> The refrain of "Optimistic" ("try the best you can / the best you can is good enough") was an assurance by Yorke's partner, [[Rachel Owen]], when Yorke was frustrated with the band's progress.<ref name="monsters" /> The title ''Kid A'' came from a filename on one of Yorke's [[Music sequencer|sequencers]].<ref name="Yamasaki-2000" /> Yorke said he liked its "non-meaning", saying: "If you call [an album] something specific, it drives the record in a certain way."<ref name="SMITH"/>