The 9th track on Kid A, later reworked in the following album, Amnesiac, as “Morning Bell/Amnesiac”.

A common interpretation of the lyrics is that the song is about divorce, a married couple splitting up. However, in a Q&A Session from MTV in 2000, Thom talked about this track and provided another interpretation, as well as some insight into the process of writing it:

Q: “Is ‘Morning Bell’ about a breakup or a divorce?”

Thom: “Not really, no. That [one’s] actually quite weird. When we came off of OK Computer, I bought this house, this empty house, and it had a ghost in it.”

Q: “What sort of ghost?”

Thom: “Well, quite friendly, but a ghost.”

Q: “How did you know it was there?”

Thom: “You just knew. You didn’t say it, but you knew. So I filled up a whole MiniDisc of stuff, of songs and half-formed ramblings or whatever. Then there was a lightning strike and it wiped it all [out]. I was really upset, ‘cause there was some really good stuff on it. But that was the general vibe of the house at the time, so I didn’t think any of it. Then I forgot it, and six months later, I was in an airplane coming back from Japan or something and I didn’t sleep at all. I hadn’t slept for ages and ages. Suddenly, I was lying there, and I’d forgotten all the stuff from the MiniDisc, and 'Morning Bell’ just came back to me, exactly as I had written it, with all the words and everything. It sounds like it’s about a breakup, but it’s really not. It’s about being in this house. So there you go. You know, things are never that direct with me, unfortunately.”

This, however, doesn’t invalidates the divorce interpretation completely, as Thom himself said in yet another interview.