Songfacts®:

• A rather foreboding song, "no one" evokes an underworld where light and sound cannot be found. It reflects the time when it was released - during the coronavirus pandemic of 2020 - but is typical of Psychedelic Furs frontman Richard Butler's songwriting. Explaining how the song came about, Butler told Songfacts: "That was something my girlfriend said to me. I forget what particular place it was about, but she said, 'Who wants to go there? No one.'
  
  It was one of those things she said, and I thought, 'Wow, I like that,' so I just started writing. It's basically a list song with 'no ones' put in there."
• This was the third single released from Made Of Rain, the first Psychedelic Furs album since 1991, when the band went on a hiatus until 2000. When they returned, it was as a touring band, but by 2020 their six-piece lineup (including original members Richard and Tim Butler) had been together for 11 years and felt it was time to issue an album. Every member had input: "No One" was written by Richard Butler and the band's guitarist, Rich Good.
• The album title came from The Man Made Of Rain, a 1998 poem by the Irish author Brendan Kennelly. He wrote the poem after undergoing quadruple bypass surgery and vacillating between life and death. Richard Butler loved the title and the idea of the "man made of rain" who occupies that kind of limbo, so he chose it for the album.