Guitarist Ed O'Brien and drummer Philip Selway said the track forced them to accept that not every song needed every band member to play on it. Greenwood said the song was a turning point in the making of Kid A: "We knew it had to be the first song, and everything just followed after it." He said it was the first time Radiohead had been happy to leave a song "sparse", instead of "layering on top of what's a very good song or a very good sound, and hiding it, camouflaging it in case it's not good enough". Yorke's vocals were processed in Pro Tools using a scrubbing tool. One night, while they were working in Gloucestershire, Yorke and Godrich transferred the song to a Prophet-5 synthesiser. Radiohead worked on the song in a conventional band arrangement in Copenhagen and Paris, but without results. Producer Nigel Godrich was unimpressed with Yorke's piano rendition of "Everything in its Right Place". And I was bored with saying I'd had enough. People were saying, 'You all right?' I knew people were speaking to me. Yorke denied that the lyrics were "gibberish", and said they expressed the depression he experienced after performing in NEC Arena in Birmingham: "I came off at the end of that show sat in the dressing room and couldn't speak. I had no idea what ADSR meant." He would "endlessly" play the riff for "Everything in its Right Place", attempting to "meditate out of" his depression. Yorke said: "That's one of the reasons I wanted to get into computers and synths, because I didn't understand how the fuck they worked.
Yorke described himself as a "shit piano player", and took inspiration from a quote by Tom Waits saying that ignorance of instruments gives him inspiration. "Everything in Its Right Place" was the first song he wrote, followed by " Pyramid Song". Yorke bought a house in Cornwall and spent his time walking the cliffs and drawing, restricting his musical activity to playing his new grand piano. But I felt just as emotional about it as I'd ever felt about guitar music." Instead, he listened almost exclusively to the electronic music of Warp artists such as Aphex Twin and Autechre, saying: "It was refreshing because the music was all structures and had no human voices in it. He suffered from writer's block and became disillusioned with rock music. Following the success of their 1997 album OK Computer, the members of Radiohead suffered psychological burnout, and songwriter Thom Yorke had a mental breakdown.
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