pretty much how my life is going to have to be when I grow up
The next track, Green Fields, has a fascinating story attached to it….
Damon: Well, it's weird because the song, it's about the song. It's very rare, I don't know many examples of a song being about that song but this was an exception because as the song says, I ended up and Alex and Dave I think were there, it's many years ago and Alex was sort of hanging out with Marianne Faithful and one drunk, messed-up night I ended up, I really don't know where it was, I know it was on the Goldhawk Road and I ended up down somebody's little demo studio and I don't remember writing this song but apparently I just sat down and just sang this thing into a tape recorder as it is, melodically and structurally, the whole thing is exactly the same and then I kind of woke up in the morning not really too sure about what happened the night before and then I started a few years later people coming up to me and going, 'Marianne played me this demo that you did and I really love it,' and I was going, 'Really? So what shall I do?' And then she went off and recorded it and I was slightly upset because she didn't like get me in to do it, you know. Apparently I'd given it to her that night. I'd just gone, 'Oh, I can write a song. Here, you can have it.' So she went and did a version of it and when I heard it I was like, 'Aah,' and then I got a copy of the original demo which was really fantastic and then late in the proceedings of recording this record I just played that original demo to everyone who went, 'Oh, let's do that.' And then I just thought, 'Well, I'll finish it by explaining how I lost this song and how now it's come back to me,' so it's a song about a song.
original demo: http://www.sendspace.com/file/43t2lp
CD version: http://www.sendspace.com/file/b0vuv8