1 'Dislocated'

Sometimes the strength of a word in a rock song is not so much it's meaning as it's sound; the percussive value for example, or it's syllabic sympathy in terms of meter and melody etc. Overall, of course, the lyrics have a story to tell, a message to convey or a meaningless stream of drivel to offer. I would like to start with the last category as it is the most fun.

This song, to me, is about a wonderful bass line, but let's face it the singer has to sing something; and so it happened that after completing 'The House of Blue Light' we felt strangely unfulfilled, not through lack of effort or even the result, more a matter of circumstances within the band; and so Roger Glover and I went to Air Studios in Montserrat to make some music and record the album 'Accidentally on Purpose'. The engineer was 'Nick Blagona' and this was the first track we put down. Roger was inspirational and even though we were 'dislocated' it took only moments to recall the crossover rhyming games we used to play in our formative years with 'Episode Six' before joining Deep Purple. Here are some phrases which may help you through the song, but please don't try to make any sense out of it.

Ming vase
Vaseline
An implied Pizza
Bull in a china shop
Shop around
Round the corner
Knee high (to a grasshopper?)
I believe
Leaving well alone