This is one of Jason Pierce's greatest lyrics, and as with many of the songs from this criminally underrated album "Let it Come Down" - shows a real progression in lyrical sophistication (first evident on "Ladies and Gentlemen...") compared with the first two Spiritualized albums and his Spaceman 3 material.
His clever inversion wordplay found in this song is subsequently explored in the track "I Am What I Am" (co-written with Dr John) which was finally recorded and released on 2012's "Sweet Heart, Sweet Light" (although the lyrics originally appeared with a very different tune on live performances from 1998).
"Out of Sight" is clearly a favorite track of Jason's. Since the tour that followed the release of "Let it Come Down" he has rarely performed tracks from this album. Probably because (apart from "On Fire") the grand orchestral and choral arrangements make those tracks hard to play live with the normal electric Spiritualized band.
However when the band played the whole "Ladies and Gentlemen..." album live, with full choir and orchestra - at every show the song he chose as an encore, the song to follow that album's closer - the epic and cacophonous "Cop Shoot Cop", was a fantastic live rendition of "Out of Sight"!
This is one of Jason Pierce's greatest lyrics, and as with many of the songs from this criminally underrated album "Let it Come Down" - shows a real progression in lyrical sophistication (first evident on "Ladies and Gentlemen...") compared with the first two Spiritualized albums and his Spaceman 3 material.
His clever inversion wordplay found in this song is subsequently explored in the track "I Am What I Am" (co-written with Dr John) which was finally recorded and released on 2012's "Sweet Heart, Sweet Light" (although the lyrics originally appeared with a very different tune on live performances from 1998).
"Out of Sight" is clearly a favorite track of Jason's. Since the tour that followed the release of "Let it Come Down" he has rarely performed tracks from this album. Probably because (apart from "On Fire") the grand orchestral and choral arrangements make those tracks hard to play live with the normal electric Spiritualized band.
However when the band played the whole "Ladies and Gentlemen..." album live, with full choir and orchestra - at every show the song he chose as an encore, the song to follow that album's closer - the epic and cacophonous "Cop Shoot Cop", was a fantastic live rendition of "Out of Sight"!