Martin's notes: I was sitting in The Prince of Wales on Kensington Church Street one rainy evening waiting for my friend Mark to turn up. I was thinking about school for some reason and started scribbling down lines that made up most of ‘Four Saints’. The first two verses are about one of my best friends, Keith, who is the first saint; the other three being the schools that I went to (Alban, Bede and Mary). This is one of
my favourite Boo’s tracks; everyone is on top form here. We mixed the album at Fort Apache in Cambridge, Mass. with Sean Slade and Paul Kolderie because we loved the Pixies and ‘The Bends’ by Radiohead. They do everything analogue with no automation so for songs such as ‘Four Saints’ and ‘Bullfrog Green’ they would have to mix it in sections then glue it back together.
Lyrics: Leaves everywhere outside your house. Running after you ‘cos you walk too fast and we can’t find a cab, looks like the Northern Line again. Remember that time outside your room playing with the cat just me and you? It was my favourite time - my world stopped for just an hour. I am the voice but not the sound I can go up yet still be down. And you don’t know the places that I’ve been to you wouldn’t like me if you knew. Whatcha gonna do when it all breaks down? Whatcha gonna do when you lose the sound? Don’t remind me I cannot say. What happened to the fire that got you through the days when nothing went right to you? Hey! Nothing changed I’m still the same. Hey boy what’s the score? Don’t you give a shit about yourself no more? If you don’t want me to be real don’t look up to me. There are three saints that shaped my life - Alban, Bede and Mary. I’ve nothing but disrespect for them and for what they almost made me. Those who taught, taught what they were taught and not what they had learned. Sister I can’t feel what you feel let me try. Brother lay your arms down and open your eyes, I believe in love. Wow! Laugh if you must I don’t care...cos I don’t dare.
