Everything Zen - Remastered

This was the first single from Bush. The lyrics are about youth culture.

Lead singer Gavin Rossdale made reference to two of his favorite people in one of the lyrics: Tom Waits and Allen Ginsberg. The line, "Rain Dogs howl for the century" refers to the Waits album Rain Dogs (also a "song), and the Ginsberg poem Howl.

In a Songfacts interview with Gavin Rossdale, he explained the meaning behind the line, "There's no sex in your violence." It comes from a line in the Jane's Addiction song "Ted, Just Admit It..." Said Rossdale: "I thought about that line, and it always struck me as a powerful lyric. I was thinking about that, and I was thinking about where I was living and where I had grown up, and some of the more violent aspects of that life and of those kids. I really hated that violence growing up. I was a little bit lost and didn't know where I was going, what I was doing, and I was committed to music, with no chance of having any success. I had been struggling for years. And that line, 'sex and violence,' that is a common thread through art. I just decided to put it in the context of, 'There's no sex in your violence.' It's sort of a personal belief, a personal mantra."