Sortie sur album : 10 juillet 2006 (The Eraser)
Nouvel arrangement : 21 juillet 2006 pour XFM
Remix : fin 2006 par Modeselektor
Nouvel arrangement : 3 octobre 2008 pour XFM
Nouvelle version (par Atoms for Peace) : 2 novembre 2009 (EchoPlex, Los Angeles)

La chanson a des paroles assez noires mais parle d’amour. Est-ce autobiographique ?

[quote cite=”Thom Yorke / Mojo, juillet 2006″]Q: “The world presented in The Eraser is full of paranoia and scary dysfunctional stuff.”

Thom: “I bet you thought, ‘Oh, he’s at it again…’ (laughs). It certainly gets very dark in the middle, yeah – with ‘Skip Divided’, which is about complete disconnection.”

Q: “That song sounds like someone having serious problems in their inter-personal relationships. Is it autobiographical? Or do these words just appear out of your mouth?”

Thom: “It’s always both – he said, being nice and evasive. You always take things from what’s happening to you and whatever psychic garbage that’s lodged in your head.” [/quote]
[button icon=’iconic-cd’ fullwidth=’true’] 10 juillet 2006 [/button]

La chanson sort sur l’album solo “The Eraser” de Thom Yorke.

[button icon=’iconic-cd’ fullwidth=’true’] 21 août 2006 [/button]
Thom Yorke travaille sur un nouvel arrangement pour la jouer en live, sur la radio XFM.
John, le présentateur l’interroge juste après :

[quote cite=”Thom Yorke / XFM ‘X-Posure’, 21 août 2006″]John: “That is Thom Yorke and Skip divided recorded here in the studios of XFM, just minutes ago…. with a Rhodes keyboard, and also, like, hitting the top of the keyboard!

Thom: “Yeah…that’s one of my favourite noises,

John: “It worked really well, I had to really take a double take when I was looking through the glass, to see exactly what you were doing… it sounds so great, it’s almost metronomic, your hand beats!

Thom: “Thank you!

John: “Years of tapping on tables, from school through to….

Thom: “It goes like this!

John: “It sounds great, is that one of the love songs that you referred to earlier on?

Thom: “Yeah, um, kind of, it’s a bit messed up for that. It sounds like it’s more of a love song than it really is. It’s actually a song about, it’s more about the dislocation than anything else to me, when I sing it I have this, I always have the image of slick black oil.

John: “That’s what you were thinking about when you were performing it?

Thom: “Yeah, that and sex…

John: “Interesting combination?

Thom: “Yeah… [/quote]
[button icon=’iconic-cd’ fullwidth=’true’] Fin 2006 [/button]
Thom collabore à l’album ‘The White Flash’ des Modeselektor, qui en profitent pour remixer Skip Divided et la jouer régulièrement en concert :

[quote cite=”Thom Yorke / NPR ‘All Songs Considered’, 14 février 2008″]Bob: “Well, let me play a little bit this cut. This is your cut, it’s skip divided… and uh this is the … it’s a Modeselektor re-mix… Let’s give a listen to that and we’ll come back…

(Plays Skip Divided)

Bob: “Laughs… They did a great job… How’d they go about doing that? Did they approach you, did you take…

Thom: “I Um no I sent the elements through… uh, that track gets progressively more strange… it starts out fairly normal like that and it just gets more alarming… [/quote]
[button icon=’iconic-cd’ fullwidth=’true’] 3 octobre 2008 [/button]
Thom joue à nouveau la chanson sur XFM, avec un nouvel arrangement, et un octave plus haut:

[button icon=’iconic-cd’ fullwidth=’true’] 2 novembre 2009 [/button]
Avec le nouveau groupe qu’il vient de former avec Flea, Nigel Godrich, Joey Waronker et Mauro Refosco, Thom reprend la chanson en live sous une nouvelle version à l’Echoplex de Los Angeles :

Elle sera interprétée par le groupe (qui s’appelera ensuite “Atoms for PEace”) régulièrement en 2009 et 2010.