Amorphous Androgynous - The Mello Hippo Disco Show (05:26)
Available on: The Isness

Lyrics:
She's hiding from the yo-yo
It's a real no no
Life with Jo-Jo
A real no no no

He's feeling kind of low low
Thinks her life is go go
But it's so so slow

He's screaming for the dodo
He's a real pro
He'll stop and say hello

Sells electric ego
Slo-mo on the dildo
Life's a flow flow flow

But does he know know know?
Where did it go?

Life's a flow flow flow
Life's a flow flow flow
Life's a flow flow flow
Life's a flow flow flow

La la lala la la la lala la laa

The world's in transience
The world's in transience
Oh no you're trying to make impermanent things permanent again
The world's in transience
The world's in transience
The world's in transience
Oh no you're trying to make impermanent things permanent again
The world's in transience
The world's in transience

La la lala la la la lala la laa
La la lala la la la lala la laa

Mumbo jumbo slow fellatio
Mumbo jumbo slow fellatio
Mumbo jumbo slow fellatio
Mello Hippo Disco Show!

Life's a flow flow flow
Life's a flow flow flow
Life's a flow flow flow
Life's a flow flow flow

Notes:
Mello Hippo was one of the first pieces worked on for The Isness, begun back in 1996. The piece premiered as Trying To Make Impermanent Things Permanent in 1997 on the band's John Peel Session, with mellotron, organ and guitar elements all featuring in the final track, as well as the "impermanent" vocal. In 2001, the EPK video on the official site featured a verse of one of many mixes of the track, a mix which was never released, although is similar to the Abbey Road Version. The Abbey Road mix was on the mispress/Abbey Road version of the album, as well as appearing on the Mello Hippo EP as Life's A Flow and The Otherness as Yo-Yo (Abbey Road Version). The version of the song that was on the leaked Tronik promo differs slightly to the final mix, containing an extra 8 bars with a new synth part. The version on the final mix of the album is less psychedelic and more prog sounding than the Abbey Road version, with plenty of organs, synths, choirs and an extended middle section. The song itself is a very sinister, sleazy pop song, inspired by Strawberry Fields Forever and I Am The Walrus by The Beatles. The lyrics appear to be utter gobbledegook, written to make the whole song rhyme, although are very visual.

Credits:
Written by Cobain/Dougans/Rowe. Produced by The Future Sound Of London.
Vocals by Gaz Cobain. Mellotron, Farfisa and keyboards by Mikey Rowe. Reprise synth by Sir Daniel Pemberton. Trumpet and brass arrangement by Dominic Glover. Trombone by Fayaz Virgi. Flute by Chris Margary. End female voice by Anjai Saga. Reprise orchestration by The Mike MC Evoy Orchestra, Composed and orchestrated by Mike MC Evoy and engineered by Stix. Cellos by Helene Binney, Jane Fento and Christene Jackson. Horn by Philip Eastop. Oboe and Cor Anglais by Kate St. John. Violins by Morven Bryce, Joanna Archard, Sarah Tilley and Mark MC Evoy. Trombone by Mark Eades. Additional la-las by The Electric Gospel Choir (Gloria Gee, Rechenda Elmhurst, John-Llewelyn Evans, Christine Settle, Jacqueline Goddard, Adrian Osmond and Jon English). Harp by Thelma Owen.