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Boots Drift all you like From ocean to ocean Search the whole world But drunken confessions And hijacked affairs will Just make you more alone If you come home I'll bake you a cake Made of all their eyes I wish you could see me Dressed for the kill What a nasty surprise What a nasty surprise So unplug your phones Stop all the taps It all comes flooding back From poisoned cloud To poisoned dwarf What a nasty surprise What a nasty surprise And the worms will come for you Big boots Yeah the worms will come for you Big boots |
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song has not been released. A huge fan favourite, but unreleased as yet, the song is a kind of tribute to James Bond themes in it's sound. It was played frequently before the release of OK Computer under the title 'Man-O-War'. It was written around the time of The Bends, but never made it on to that album. The band have tried many times to record it - including in March 1998 for the soundtrack to the film 'The Avengers', but they just couldn't get it to sound right (see the Meeting People is Easy video). Thom speaking on MTV's 120 Minutes (26-April-98) : "We ditched it because we were so messed up and we went in, tried to do the track, but we just couldn't do it. It was actually a really difficult period of time. We had a five week break and all the shit was coming to the surface. It was all a bit wierd - I mean we went in and tried to do this old track that we had and it just wasn't happening at all. It was a real low point after it. It was quite an early song, written around the time of The Bends and it didn't make it on to The Bends. We couldn't find the proper way into it or whatever." After a lot of failed attempts at recording this song, sadly the band have finally decided to ditch it, and it will not be in the running for the fourth album, and probably won't be played again by them. The only recordings left of this masterpiece are live performances (of which only four are known) from 1995, and the outtakes on the Meeting People is Easy video. |
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