My Right A.R.M.

Track 12 is another interesting inclusion. My Right Arm is an album
Track from the 1991 album Hoodoo. This is one of two tracks taken
From that album. Does that mean that you were generally happy
With Hoodoo, or are there only so many tracks that can fit on key?

Yeah, there's only so many tracks can fit on key. I mean, Hoodoo is a

Very significant album for me because it's when I started expressing
My discomfort and my rage and reflected a life that was really all
Over the place at the time. And I was rebelling against expectations
Again, as I had when I was young. And I'd had this small period of
Being shocked by fame and feeling like there's something very wrong
With me that I needed to comply, that I needed to conform. And that
Was the start of me realizing actually that I don't respect these
Voices that are telling me to do things for the wrong reason
I'm angry and I'm disaffected and blah, blah, blah. So it's an
Important album. But yeah, of course, it's very much to do with

How much space we have. But My Right Arm was an interesting track
From my perspective, because that's one of the ones that would
Have started out even with some of the... On the original, the
Parts that were on there were things that I programmed in in my
Early days of playing with technology and so would have written
Those kind of lines. I like the angular melody and the demonic sing-
Song nursery rhyme chorus. It had a lot of charm in it. And again
It was one that Sean felt a way into. So over to you, Sean

Well, I think with all the Hoodoo songs, it's the one
That's the closest to my world. Because like Footsteps
Hoodoo, Find Me, things like that, all great songs. But
I can't see a way of bringing my skills to bear on those
In a way that would be to a positive benefit for the song
Yeah, because there were a lot of guitar-heavy
Songs when they were kind of like band lineups
And they feel fully realized anyway. Yeah, yeah

And the thing I liked about My Right Arm is sonically, that song's an

Outlier on that record. And because it's more in my sort of synthy

World, I could hear a way into it that wasn't going to be

Transformative, but was just going to put it in a different light
And the thing I really love about that song is because it's got like
A minor key angular, unusual melody with some interesting and strange
Chord changes, but it's about something really tender. And I love
That dichotomy between the two. I love that you're singing about
Something really tender and meaningful in this almost kind of
Stentorian tone in a minor key. Yeah. It's just, I love that. And I
Wanted to work with it. So that was an easy one for me to just get
In there, really. Yeah, let's see. Again, that's got another great
Middle eight by Sean in there that just elevates you. You know

What's lovely about that moment is it's like, you know, within the

Chorus when it's saying, you know, hold your head up high, it's
Trying to give this message of positivity into a dark room that
Actualizes it. That middle eight does actualize that feeling or that
Willingness to impart on somebody else. Hope is not lost, you know
Hope is not lost for any of us. And so I listen to that and I really
Get moved by that. I love how it's almost like a call and response
And you call vocally. It's like, you know, it is like somebody else
Behind you, you know, when you're kind of, I will, I will, I will
And the person behind you, you can, you can, and you are. You know
It feels like that. So I find it very moving. And it's interesting

That on the surface, it sounds like a dark song, but it's incredibly

Positive. It is positive in that thing. I was talking to you later on

When we talked earlier on about kind of being impervious. It's like

It's the recognizing all of the pitfalls of life and also the fact

That no one ultimately can save you but yourself. But you do have the

Power to save yourself. You know, you do have agency. You can claim

Agency. So it's a song, it's a song of hope, but it's not a song of

A bandage. You know, it's not easy hope. There's no easy hope and

There's nothing that's painless. It's not suggesting a life of

Painlessness. It's just asserting that you have to visualize change
To make change possible. Even in the darkest moments. Even in the
Darkest moments, you know, that old adage, you know, the darkest
Hours right before dawn. It's just like, you know, it's like, yeah
It's hard. And also, and it's also that the person that's conveying
That message is also reminding themselves because we have to do
That all the time. We have to boost ourselves up and build ourselves
Up and remind ourselves that we're going to get out of this pit
That we've seen this pit before, and we're going to get out of the
Pit and it's flipping hard and it's horrible and it's desperate

But I have this thing in life, which is I learned it some years ago
Which is literally visualizing the future. So when I'm really
Scared about something happening, I just make a real point of
Visualizing the day after I'm going, oh, bloody hell, I'm really
Glad that's done. So I kind of jump in my head, I jump to that
Moment, knowing that that moment's going to come. But also, it
Doesn't mean to say that it's not going to be
Rubbish. It's just, you know, there's going to be
An out. Whatever that out is, there'll be an out