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The third track is a lullaby-like piano ballad with shifting time signatures, was written in five minutes for Yorke’s infant son Noah. Tate observed that the song "thus, in biographical context, becomes addressed to a next generation in the same way Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four may have been written indirectly for Orwell’s son … in the same way, Hail to the Thief may not be imagining present ills so much as warning a next generation." The