Amorphous Androgynous - The Galaxial Pharmaceutical (14:33)
Available on: The Isness

Amorphous Androgynous - The Galaxial Pharmaceutical (15:03)
Available on: The Isness (Abbey Road Version)

Lyrics:
Please tell me mister spaceman
Can't you really spare the time
To float in innerspace?
It's the most extra-ordinary place
Please tell me mister policeman
Can't you really tow the line
And float in innerspace?
It'll blow even your most criminally neglected mind

Where do we come from and where are we going to?
Life's a blinder when you find her
Life's a downer when you've found her
Can't you see this isn't life's mystery?
Where do we come from and where are we going to?

Welcome to the Galaxial Pharmaceutical (pharmaceutical)
Miss medicinal
Do you think it's critical?
Look into the my wide eyed retina
You'll see I'm at my
Most illogical
Irrational
An instutional
Maybe suitable
Do you think I'm animal?
Or maybe mineral?
Or simple a vegetable? Cuckoo cuckoo cuckoo
You see my mind is projecting everywhere
In innerspace
Manifesting three dimensional
Illusional
Inexplicable

And while you're here miss medicinal
When I think you're cutical
So beautiful
Oh so magical
Almost edible
Is my love incurable?
It is all so inconcievable?
Where do we come from and where are we going to?

How come you're never around anymore huh?


Am I big or am I small?
Everyone seems ten feet tall
A lamp shade glides like a guilloteen above my bed
The world seems like a million light years
From my head
The spacecraft has been programmed for me

So let there be a message on my answer machine
From friends or lovers who will miss me
When I'm gone
When I'm gone
(5, 4, 3, 2, 1, lift off)
When I'm gone
When I'm gone

Notes:
Of all the tracks that different between the two versions of The Isness, The Galaxial Pharmaceutical changed the most. For the final version, the four minute intro was cut down to two minutes, the end guitar solo was spliced into the middle and followed by a fade out, giving a minute's silence and sound effects, before picking up again and ending just before that guitar solo. The final mix is much more fragmented, although being separated can make it easier to listen to, as it is not in one chunk. The song is about exploring inner space and your own spirituality - particularly inspired by a Deepak Chopra quote about floating in inner space - as opposed to outer space and the universe, as a lot of songs have been written: one in particular is Space Oddity by David Bowie, which many listeners will recognise as being a huge influence on this piece. The track is most definitely an epic, and manages to be progressive rock whilst holding a sense of fun and humour which the original prog movement often sorely missed. The piece was initially intended to be the album's title track, although this changed when the record turned into The Isness. Two extended sections of the piece, Galaxial Prologue and Am I Big Or Am I Small? featured on 1999's unreleased EP. The full piece, originally started by Gaz whilst strumming a guitar due to boredom from sitting in due to a broken leg, was one of the first songs composed for the album, and due to its length and complexity (featuring potentially over a hundred audio tracks) led it to almost crash the Macintosh computer they were using on more than one occasion. Intended to be the ultimate over the top rock opera song, it succeeded, and became one of the band's most loved and loathed songs.

Credits:
Written by Cobain/Dougans/Richter/Howell. Produced by The Future Sound Of London.
Acoustic guitar and vocals by Gaz Cobain. Contains a sample from Through The Glass Darkly by Peter Howell And The Radiophonic Workshop. String and choir orceshtration, piano and keyboards by Max Richter. Violins by Alex Balanescu and Clie Gould. Viola by Levine Andrade. Cello by Sue Monks. Additional mellotron cello by Mikey Rowe. Electric guitar by Stinky Rowe. Saxophone by Chris Margery. Additional synth ochestration by Sir Daniel Pemberton. Flugel horn by Phillip Bainbridge. Female voice by Christine Charly. Drums by Bertie and Paul Tyagi. Engineered by Stix. Female answer machine message by Sarah Gepp. Additional voices by The Vandeville Stage And Big Screen FX Singers.