'Great Hosannah'
"It was written specifically to open the album, having watched Jesus Christ Superstar, the movie. We used it as a great musical inspiration."

'Mystical Machine Gun'
"It was pieced together over a period of three years. I wrote the lyrics before we had a record deal. We played a different version last April on tour. It has nothing to do with real bullets; it's about firing people's imaginations, turning them on."

'S.O.S'
"Heavy, aggressive, full-on rock music. It's got a lot of anger and frustration for all the shit that's out there. It's so over the top in it's anger that it's quite funny. It's more a joke than a real statement. There's a message there somewhere, too."

'Radhe Radhe'
"A great celebration of the Queen of Brindaven. In that region, that's how people greet each other all the time and there's a great folk song from that. We've been out in New Orleans touring and we saw some great brass bands over there, so we ended up in that sort of groove when we did the song. It was done at Konk Studio in Muswell Hill, Ray Davies of The Kinks' studio."

'I'm Still Here'
"It might sound like it's a very personal song about surviving the onslaught of the press, but it's actually a very tongue-in-cheek, funny song."

'Shower Your Love'
"It's a positive song pieced together from the core of two different recording sessions. To introduce it we used the "shenay" (actually spelt 'shenai') - an Indian reed instrument."

'108 Battles'
"Written in one evening down at the boat. We needed a little bit of energy on the second side after we had most of the album written. Alonzo [sic] was bashing away at the piano, and we built it up, bit by bit, backwards. Then we did the guitar, the vocals, then bass and drums right at the end."

'Sound of Drums'
"A remixed version (of the single). The drums calling all the people."

'Timeworm'
"I started working on this song on the tour bus in Germany. Alonzo was piecing together a few acoustic bits on a digital recorder, messing with loops, and that's where the track came from. The song is about this time thing where you keep going round and round in circles."

'Last Farewell'
"It's a sort of goodbye. It's kind of linked to the first track and it again was something that we'd been toying with for many years."

'Golden Avatar'
"Based on a 16th century Indian saint from Bengal. Instead of being a very austere character, he had a very devotional, loving, fun attitude."

'Namami Nanda-Nandana'
"Another old folk song from the same region where 'Radhe Radhe' comes from. We had the chance to use a flute player called Henry Pashad. We got him in there with the idea of him telling a story, like in Alice In Wonderland - where she wakes up at the end and there's the reading of the story."

'Stotra'
"A hidden track, the sort of thing that people should wake up softly to when they fall asleep stoned or something. A lovely piece. We used Himangshu Goswami - the musician who played tabla on the first album. He's got an amazing voice and he's a great percussionist."