Songfacts®:

• While the song may appear to be about a relationship that is falling apart, the song's real message is this: Beware the dangers of believing in illusions, no matter how tantalizing they may appear or how heady the heat of introduction may be. Hence the chorus, "Just cause you feel it, doesn't mean it's there." >>

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  Steven - Stockton, CA
• Thom Yorke has said in interviews that he wept when he first heard the playback to "There There."
• According to Q magazine April 2008, the song's Krautrock-inspired drumming was a homage to Can's 1971 album Tago Mago.
• Chris Hopewell, who directed the song's stop-animated video, recalled to Q magazine April 2008 its filming: "Thom Yorke had an idea of being a character in one of the little stories you get in Bagpuss (A UK 1970s children's animated TV series about a cat). A cross between that and a Grimms fairy tale. Once I heard that, any idea of having people playing instruments or mouthing the lyrics went straight out of the window. I sent the band some postcards by a Victorian gentleman called Mr. Potter who had his own museum of stuffed animals in weird situations, like kittens at a wedding, and Thom loved it."
  
  "We shot the opening in a tiny wood near Bristol where I used to go mountain-biking and the rest was done in the studio with the logs we brought in," Hopewell continued. "We had Thom there for three days, which he was quite happy about because he had so many press conferences to do."
  
  "To get the jerky movement he had to do everything at one third the speed, but he did it amazingly,"Hopewell added. "He'd really rehearsed it. I know they think it's one of their better videos, though I have to say most of the success is down to the track being a beautiful, almost cinematic piece of music. We were approached by ad agencies to do something similar stuff afterwards, but it meant too much to me to bastardize it with some product."