"I was watching some TV while the backing track was being finished, about an extremely violent individual and recounting the time five blokes had leapt from a car and attacked me with hammers and sticks as well as stories which were becoming increasingly common, of old people being beaten and robbed in their own homes by junkies. When the time came to do the take this is what came out. We knew it was a single but didn't know what to call it. We were in a cafe when Dave showed me a news paper cartoon, a funny looking guy with a speech bubble that said..."
Mark's note from the official site:
"I was watching some TV while the backing track was being finished, about an extremely violent individual and recounting the time five blokes had leapt from a car and attacked me with hammers and sticks as well as stories which were becoming increasingly common, of old people being beaten and robbed in their own homes by junkies. When the time came to do the take this is what came out. We knew it was a single but didn't know what to call it. We were in a cafe when Dave showed me a news paper cartoon, a funny looking guy with a speech bubble that said..."