Songfacts®:

• "Help Help" is one of the few tracks in the Pearl Jam catalog written by bass player Jeff Ament - music and lyrics. Much of the album deals with the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Here, Ament makes a case for empathy as Eddie Vedder sings:
  
  The man they call my enemy, I've seen his eyes
  He looks just like me
  
  "I think love's a real big theme on this record," Ament told Uncut soon after the album was released. "It might not be the love of a girl, but all that love encompasses. This is a time of war we're in now. It's not a clearly fought war. But there are a lot of things that need to be restated."
• In a 2023 Songfacts interview with Jeff Ament, he talked about how this song transformed after he brought it to the band. "The demo that I did for it was a little bit more rock – a little bit more Zeppelin-y," he said. "And then when the band got a hold of it, it just got a little bit more 'art project-y.' It's a cool track when I listen to it now. It sounds kind of psychedelic and almost like Jane's Addiction."