Help Yourself: New Physics Rant

"'New Physics Rant" was originally something musically that I'd put together several years ago before the Mr. Jordan album. I always keep everything so I just had bits of music here and there and I was running through old demo tapes and Bob said, 'What's that?' and I said, 'That's just, you know, jibberish' and he said, 'No, no, no, no, no. I think we can do something with that' and then Anthony Moore came along and, of course, had the craziest lyrics I'd ever seen in my life which was basically a very interesting look at the universe, life and everything else in it and I didn't quite know how to approach this. Bob said it should be like a rap and I said, 'Well, I don't really want to fall into that category' but he said, 'No, you've got to understand. It's a guy talking about the universe and life and everything else, but I think he should be a guy that's trying to demonstrate something but obviously people are not listening to him so he tends to get a little outraged at the end and wants you to definitely understand what he's talking about although it's almost impossible and so lyrically it's very deep and twisted and the idea of calling it a rap sort of annoyed me because everything else was a rap at the time and still is at the moment. Not that I don't like rap, it's just that I didn't want, you know, appear to sort of jump on any old band wagon, you know, so the British are famous for ranting on and being overly boring and terrible sometimes and just waffle waffle and so, I mean, New Physics Waffle wouldn't quite of worked but Rant did."
- Julian Lennon on "New Physics Rant"

New Physics Rant

J. Lennon/A. Moore/B. Ezrin/S. Humphries

The Lyrics