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BIG BOOTS [MAN O' WAR]
Released: This track has yet to be released Length: About 4 minutes long. Disc: There's a clip on the Meeting People Is Easy video Tablature: Guitar |
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A huge fan favourite, but unreleased as yet, the song is a kind of tribute to James Bond themes in it's sound. It was
played frequently before the release of OK Computer under the title 'Man-O-War'.
It was written around the time as The Bends, but never made it on to that
album. The band have tried many times to record it - including in March 1998 for the soundtrack to the film
'The Avengers', but they just couldn't get it to sound right (see the Meeting People Is Easy video). |
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Drift all you like, from ocean to ocean Search the whole world But drunken confessions, and hijacked affairs Just make you more alone If you come home, I'll bake you a cake Made of all their eyes I wish you could see me, dressed for the kill You're my man of war You're my man of war And the worms will call for you Big boots So unplug your phones, stop all the taps It all comes flooding back From poison cloud to poison dwarf You're my man of war You're my man of war And the worms will call for you Big boots Now the worms will call for you Big boots For you Big boots |
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"We ditched it because we were so messed up and we went in, tried to do the track, but we just couldn't do it.
It was actually a really difficult period of time. We had a five week break and all the shit was coming to the
surface. It was all a bit wierd - I mean we went in and tried to do this old track that we had and it just wasn't
happening at all. It was a real low point after it. It was quite an early song, written around the time of
The Bends and it didn't make it on to The Bends. We couldn't find the proper way into it or whatever." - Thom"Man-o-war is very melodramatic. Too melodramatic. When we started out, it was just a homage to bond themes really. I like it. It's pretty much the opposite to everything we're writing." - Thom "We were so messed up and we went in, tried to do the track, but we just couldn't do it. It was actually a really difficult period of time. We had a five week break and all the shit was coming to the surface. It was all a bit wierd.. I mean we went in and tried to do this old track that we had... and it just wasn't happening at all. It was a real low point after it. It was quite an early song. It was written around The Bends and it didn't make it onto that. We couldn't find the proper way into it or whatever." - Thom |
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