Two tracks on Dust were written way before any others, and, perhaps slightly strangely, they have ended up being the first and last tracks. There are probably a number of reasons for this, but I don't think any of them are particularly interesting.
So Not Even Close begins with a noise that's not too dissimilar to Goldfrapp's Ooh La La. This isn't intentional: Supernature hadn't come out yet when we first recorded this track. It was supposed to sound a bit like I Feel You from Depeche Mode's wonderful Songs of Faith and Devotion album. Never mind, the good ideas are always the most widely used.
It's a song about our (young people these days') disillusionment with British politics. You'll find all the obvious references in there, such as "we trusted your smile, not your lying eyes" and "there's no need to be truthful, or honour what you said". It isn't the first song we've written about this sort of thing - also check out No Man's Land on Zero and Down from Nemesis (admittedly the latter was rather less obvious, as the references to Major, Blair and Thatcher were removed, and the line "I wish I had hair like Michael Portillo" was replaced by "I wish I had hair like an armadillo", which makes much more sense).
Apparently the chords are the same as Not a Million Miles (off our last album Empires), but played backwards. We've done that before, as well. Proof, were it needed, that very little we do is actually original.
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