So it was something I was very passionate about, and I guess in this song… It’s a montage of different emotions. That comes from living in Canada and being exposed to indigenous culture, then reading into it. The references to Wounded Knee, that was my fascination with native cultures and indigenous cultures, which I’ve had since I was about 11 years old.
George Orwell’s 1984 wasn’t that far away from reality in the early ’80s in the UK, in Thatcher’s Britain. But the sense in that song was definitely about dystopia, growing up in mostly industrial areas, whether it was Merseyside in England or Glasgow or Hamilton, Ontario, in Canada, it was certainly coming out of true punk rock. Lyrically, it was wonderfully earnest and naïve and beautiful, coming from a very young spirit. I remember Barry Jepson adding a chord to it, and Buzz working on the arrangement, so it was a collaboration. That’s a Southern Death Cult song we developed as a band. I just loved the sound of that chord, especially on acoustic guitar.
I could play E-minor over and over again. Ian Astbury: You know what? I probably had about two or three chords I knew at the time.
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