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Sherrie: I'd been messing round with these chords that are dead easy to play but sound a bit weird and give the song a slightly mad-sounding harmony. This is reinforced by the way the backing vocals are put together and performed. The guitar riff came well after the song had been written and sort of evolved from one of the weird chords and something Duke had written in a previous life. The concept came from when we were homeless and lived in a hotel which had a wonderful view over the Severn valley...that view kept us going through some difficult times.

Duke: I wanted to match the mad-sounding harmony with some wacky imagery. The song contains John's favourite line from the whole album "carpets and curtains are internal organs, it's best to ignore them if they're working well". I'm pretty proud of that one! On the surface the lyric is about going to an estate agent and getting them to show you a nice place with a brilliant view as something of an escape, but on a deeper level it's about  finding a way of looking outwards and onwards towards the horizons of your life, rather than being an introspective bore wallowing in self-pity when things are bad. I like to get philosophical now and then. The opening line is a musician's joke - the myth that every blues song starts with 'I woke up this morning' - I wanted to put a twist into one of the most well-used lyricist's gambits ever.