from Zipcodes, released June 26, 2006
This is a song I'd spent YEARS thinking about writing and had several attempts at starting before this final version struggled out. I'd come up with a JAZZY BASS RIFF which I was preparing to take to a Validators Practice, and I got the first couple of verses pretty swiftly just before it happened. We JAMMED the song with just that bit and, I think, I made up the chorus section there and then. The first time we played it it sounded GRATE, but then it somehow went OFF so that, when we got to record the Demo Version at Memphis a couple of months later, it sounded a bit rubbish. It didn't help that it was very much the same all the way through, and that since the first practice it had more than DOUBLED in length.

I tried to think of a way to freshen it up, but the fact remained that it was really TOO LONG to play the way we had been doing, but i liked the words FAR TOO MUCH to cut them down, and so it gently moved OFF the Songs To Do List.

However, it stayed in my mind and when I started recording some songs for a possible American CASSETTE release the words to this one came back to me. In a TERRIBLY futuristic stylee i made up some LOOPS of guitars, mixed them all together, and found that I could sing a slightly rejigged version of this song over the top of it. Again, it was pretty much the same all the way through so I had to fiddle around with the loops and various WEIRD NOISES all the way through, and it was a LOT of fun. No wonder Brian Eno always looks so chipper!