Here are the words from the cockpit in regard to the flight that takes place within the dimensions of Dave Graneys side, HASHISH.

This is part of a double set, accompanying LIQUOR by Clare Moore.

There he goes with his eye out
Mark started playing the chord, I was on the bass and Clare on the drums. He told me he was going to sit on the chord and I should just descend from a note a half tone above it down to a G and then back up. We put it down in one take and then I sang over the groove. I played the guitar and Clare added the strings. Mark forgot about it and was surprised a few months later when presented with the glam tune we'd worked up. The title came from a book about London street market kids in the 19th century East end. They would shout this out if they saw a toff walking about , looking for some kind of action.
My schtick weighs a ton
Greg Den Hartog worked in a studio for many years with Bill. I was part of the scene who would drop in for a tea occasionally. He called me up and said he had a tune that sounded good for me. I went in and then sang over the top. He was a bit surprised at the speed with which it happened. I got the bug and threw the vocal down quick. He mixed it with his studio patner, Dee, after Clare ahd also thrown down some live drums. The lyric was inspred by an interview I read with Phil Silvers ( Bilko, below) . Greg plays all the instruments and sings the backing vocals. Its a real Prolific Music production.

I wanna get lost again
I played this song for about a year before recording it so I knew it backwards. I sang it roughly once after a series of dates. I went back later to do it again with a better mic but couldn't get the same ,relaxed feel.
I sent the rough mix to Warren Ellis in Paris and he laid some strings down. Marvellous!
I feel that this is one of my best ever tunes.
I will have always been here before
Roky Erikson has always been a big inspiration. He did "I have always been here before" I thought he was limiting things to the present. I wanted to stretch out my dominion into the future and the past.I was bagging my nephew and his mate about beiong inside playing computer games, telling them they should get outside , with a ball or something. The little 9 yr old held up his hand and said, "CEASE MORTAL!" . Thats how the song begins.
Mark on piano, Clare on drums and me on bass and acoustic. From the same one night session that saw four tracks emerge. Again, I sent the rough mix to Warren Ellis in Paris and he put down some flute.

Sometimes you can see yourself
I wrote and recorded all this and then Clare put the drums down. Kind of a backward process but thats how it happened. I see it as a Bolan type o' boogie.
Everybodys gone (from somewhere)
More of an acoustuc feel. I played everything except the drums. Kind of a country folk song. Ghostly stuff.
lets live properly
Again, I played everything except the drums.The chorus reminded me of something Bruce Springsteen would do, stretching out the melody over a minimalistic chord variation.
I wrote the lyric about the way people try to appear totally straight when they are so stoned. They are on their best behaviour and drive their cars most carefully ( and slowly). I thought society would benefit from everybody putting on their best, straightest face.

I've got dimensions
I had a lot to say here. Again its all over one chord, just the way it was done in the Moodists. Mark played the hell out of it, as did Clare. I put the acoustic down later and Stuart Perera played the electric guitar. Of course, we all have dimensions. I'm just talkin about mine.
Saturday Night Bath
I played everything except the piano. A happy song to end the journey.