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this is a very weird but funky song. i think its about a girl who at first seems great but when you look closely shes not really that speical...she steps on cracks instead of walking over them....little things like that

Well I'm a big Bell X1 fan and I've seen them play this live a dose of times and one of those times Paul talked a bit about the song and twas written after a break up during his student days.

There's a few cool references in this song as there is in a lot of the Bellies songs, "But you were paying the Ferryman, even after Chris said Don't" - refers to the Chris De Burgh song Don't Pay The Ferryman where a chap is on a ferry on a stormy night, the ferryman is looking for payment but the singer is advising the chap not to pay til he arrives at his destination, some comparisons have been made that the ferryman is a symbol for the grim reaper but I don't think thats true in this song - I cud be mistaken. Another one is "But you're not Maude Gonne" - Maude Gonne was the Irish poet WB Yeats muse and he thought so highly of her that he wrote many a poem and tale about her beauty. Obviously Paul's bird at the time thought she was a bit of a muse but Mr Noonan doesn't necessarily agree (Sorry love!)

He sings a bit in this song about neglecting tell tale signs that the relationship wasn't really going anywhere, and that this lassie wasn't all she he originally thought she was. In the second verse he talks about being other peoples children, he could always be sent home. It's great being able to send other peoples kids home when ya get tired of em haha! And we all know about those blue screens where people can put on multiple effects and make things look bigger and better then they really are.

The chorus is probably about that time just before the dissolution of a relationship where there's nothing really to be said, you both know the inevitable and are just waiting for the cahona's to call it a day but don't worry - IT'S GONNA BE OK!!