The Amorphous Androgynous - The World Is Full Of Plankton (08:02)
Available on: Alice In Ultraland

Lyrics:
Look at the world
See them laughing at me now
Can they see that I'm all at sea again
Silly little fish me I drank the sea again
Trying to breathe through the lovers' gills again
Trying to lie to my soul again
Well silly little me
Silly little me
Silly little me
Silly little me

There is no purpose to your life on Earth
You're insignificant
You're insignificant
Yes you're magnicifcent
But you're insignificant

So now I have your attention at least a while
While most of the audience have left, the rest insanely smile
It's time to tell you what's been haunting me
So here goes, roll out the prose
From the sell-out blockbusting real life show
I've no doubt that deep down everyone knows
I've no doubt that deep down everyone knows
I've no doubt that deep down everyone knows
I've no doubt that deep down everyone knows
I've no doubt that deep down everyone knows
I've no doubt that deep down everyone knows
I've no doubt what comes invariably goes

Notes:
As The Galaxial Pharmaceutical was to The Isness, this is Alice In Ultraland's prog epic. Whilst far shorter and more simple in scope, it still sounds huge. Beginning with guitars and pianos reminiscent of The Beatles, the piece builds up to a huge, spacey song before ending in Mello Hippo style, with noise, a short silence and then a reprise with the final verse. The track was one of six to appear on an unreleased EP back in 1999/2000, samples of which appeared online a couple of months before Alice In Ultraland's release. The song appears to be about how small and insignificant we all are in comparison to the cosmos, but how we are all special in our own way. The beginning of the last verse may refer to fans who have lost interest in the band due to the new direction, or simply those who are uninterested in spiritual matters. The title was noticed by Gaz from a radio programme, which inspired the writing of the song. He explains: "Listening to a football phone in radio broadcast the presenter exasperated by his conversation with one particularly RETARDED caller was heard to say with a deep sigh 'the world is full of plankton' Gaz Cobain walked around for days obsessing about those words and their implications and once back in the studio the Amorphous quickly set to work to create an epic song about the futility of man and how small we are in the grand scheme of things. YAGE the infamous FSOL engineer on hearing the song grabbed the disks and buried himself away in his studio in the heart of nowhere for a week and emerged triumphantly with a truly epic piece of sonic mastery befitting the gravity and scale of the lyric"

Credits:
Written by Cobain/Dougans. Produced by The Future Sound Of London.
Piano and glockenspiel by Mikey Rowe. Bass, electric guitar and acoustic finger pick by Stu Rowe. Female vocals by Doree Jackson.