Martin's notes: The first bit of Butterfly McQueen is a steal from the intro to Question off top Moody Blues album Days Of Future Past. I always claimed that the lyrics were from an overheard conversation on the top of a bus heading for Kentish Town one dark night but I have a suspicion from listening just now that that could be bollocks. Butterfly McQueen had been on Parkinson around that time. I wrote the tune when we were all on holiday, somewhere in Scandanavia, a place with a jelly fish epidemic. I had started to write songs that had a lot of changes in them. One of the guitars was called 'Make It Stop'. That's all bass at the end, everyone thinks it's twenty guitars but it's just one track of Tim Brown and his wild dog bass.
Lyrics: I've finally broke your cool! Leave my things just where they are, I didn't think it would go this far. Makes no sense no sense at all. That's why this bird must fly away. Finally broke the rule! Butterfly you made me say I'd never leave, but I can't stay. I'd never hurt you willingly, but it's time this bird must fly away. Bird must fly today, butterfly away. What am I supposed to do now that love's gone away? Take my life, take my air, release me from this body, I'll go anywhere! I feel you rising, Butterfly McQueen.
