This filthy psychedelic tune is about a person who goes to a sex hotel. Alt-J recalled the story of the song to NPR's All Things Considered: "This song came out of nowhere. We were in the studio and trying to work on something else, started jamming, and had written most of this song before we knew what had happened. It takes place in an imaginary sex hotel, and is meant to be a fun, carefree number."
Leather slings fall like oxygen masks We're going down, f--k my life in half The above lyric was inspired by what vocalist Joe Newman thought might be his last words on earth. While working on Relaxer, the Alt-J singer was driving to London from Southampton with his girlfriend when his car hit a massive puddle. "I thought I was going to plane or roll over," Newman recalled to Q magazine. "And I just shouted out, 'f--k my life in half!' Then I thought, 'Hmmm, that's a really good lyric.'"
The song did end up aquaplaning away from its original highway related source with Newman adding the line, "Family matters, couldn't agree more. This is my family, fisting me on the floor." Newman explained to Q Magazine the song is "about a person who goes to a sex hotel, a sex... space. Then they go into each room and experience it. In that line, the word fisting is bleeped out. We thought it would be funnier that way."
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