At a gig I was at they said this was written about a true incident. Tom, the bassist, saw a can of beer on the stage and in a moment of wanton badassery, kicked it into the audience. It just so happened to hit one of their friends in the head, so they wrote this song to make it up to her.
Also, I could have sworn that the fish and chips verse was taken from another one of their songs, which ended up as an instrumental B-side to something Global, but I might be wrong. When they first started out that had loads of weird little short unfinished songs.
At a gig I was at they said this was written about a true incident. Tom, the bassist, saw a can of beer on the stage and in a moment of wanton badassery, kicked it into the audience. It just so happened to hit one of their friends in the head, so they wrote this song to make it up to her.
Also, I could have sworn that the fish and chips verse was taken from another one of their songs, which ended up as an instrumental B-side to something Global, but I might be wrong. When they first started out that had loads of weird little short unfinished songs.