instant karma: completely gone fishing

liner notes: planet spain

"Basically I'm telling people not to watch too much TV, and at the same time I'm watching TV like hell myself!! Apart from that, it's dealing with the fun-orientated generation who are far from leading poetic and really deep lives like we do. (Bollocks!) The producer was quite provocative about the lyrics and suggested that we should sing something like: "making love to the IRA". Bound to be a hit, ey!?"

Everything is possible today, just as long as you're up to date. With the latest fashion to approve everything that's so real. Watch the man on the stool go to hell, see how he looks with the juice in his veins. As the spit runs down your mouth, you reach out for the sweets next to you. If I had the remote control, I`d zap you away to where you really belong, TV today. Now you're off on a holiday, having sex in the orient. As the spit runs down your mouth, you'll pull out your card and pay for the boy. Somebody has to drive the car tonight. So we can get into town and feel alright. If I was to book your flight, I`ll send you to space. Where you really belong, to Planet Spain. Viva Espana.

--Tom

liner notes: w

'Why oh Why can you guys never get it right? Well, this album track is way off from Tom`s initial vision. Please cross-reference with an earlier version in the bonus section. The rest of us still think, it`s one of the real beauties of this record.'

Let him screw you down to his sickened world. Purgatory or what? Let him get you drugged, get you half asleep. Will you hear the call? Never forget the day, when he told you `You look fat in that dress'. How you reacted, like a housewife, you just smashed a cup and cried. Are you that easy to convince? Cause when you really are, you should know that boundless swimming lets you forget the ways into truth, the big W. I know, what it`s like to swim, that`s the reason why I care. You`re afraid when you leave him, he might to himself harm. But you can`t hide him from the rest, of which he thinks that he`s above. I know what it`s like to swim, but now I`m dry.

--Tom

liner notes: birthday suite

"The single of the album with a great, unusual animated video. A favourite for many, it's about an old man in a pensioners home, communicating with the bugs in his room. Slow forest, by the way, is the nice Thai word for cemetery. The highlight of the song , the elevating finale with Tom and Ollie on their best Pavarotti, was inexplicably culled for the radio single."

I'm not growing anymore, I decompose, I break my leg my shoulder, I lose my ears, I lose my nose, oops there it goes ... And she doesn't know that I'm not quite alone, I got friends on the ceiling, got neighbours in my bed, they're keeping me the company I never have, they're everywhere, and she won't care, that I see semaphores, they see moths, I receive morsecode, they see fireflies. They all tell me it's a slow forest, all the bugs and worms and maggots and butterflies, they're all friends of mine. I'm a giant, a whole world of their own. I'm all hills and valleys and forests and roads, they party on my pelvis and hide in my toes, and when the lights go down, they make music for me ... listen.

--Martin

liner notes: give me a deal

'Ego trip, part one. Many people who heard this classic IK rocker thought it was all about getting signed. It's not. At the time, I had lost my girlfriend, had huge financial problems ( OK, still have ...) and was running out of people I could shovel my problems on (Let's hear a big `Ah' for Gordon ...). Blamed it all on the music, I did. So, lets `give me a deal' and get this thing over with. Oh, the company exec loved it, `must have felt like a big wet sloppy one on the bum. But then again, it worked, right ?'

You've been pushing around my friends for much to long. You've been playing around with me and jerked me off. I'm twisted, I'm screwed, your sewer is my head. Maybe just a bond to much you broke. Suck, suck again. Give me a deal and be quiet. Give me a deal, I'm getting tired.

--Gordon