Neil  This is part of the take-a-chord-change-from a-famous-classical-piece-of-music-and-write-a-new-song-over-it range. This is 'The Moonlight Sonata' by Beethoven. On Chris's demo it was called 'Give Me The Moonlight'.

Chris It's definitely in the 'Shameless' category.

Neil  It's arranged at the start a bit like in a

Hollywood musical about something happening in the theatre, where you get those scenes where the curtain opens and it keeps going back and back and there's this ludicrously huge spectacle that could never be in a theatre, then right at the end it comes back to the theatre and the curtains close. The idea came from the book Haddan VII by Baron Corvo, who was an embittered English writer living in Venice at the turn of the century. His book is about an Englishman with megalomaniac fantasies who becomes the Pope.

It's imagining you're being crowned Emperor of the world - you hate people because they've treated you so badly and so you want to rule the world and get your revenge on them. When I was a child I had delusions of grandeur- my earliest ambition was to be the Pope. And I had the title 'Delusions of grandeur' for years and years and years, since the 1989 tour. It took me quite a while to write the words. Originally there was a first verse which was cut out because the song was too long. The 'rlng the bells' section is inspired by the D. H. Lawrence poem, 'A sane revolution', which ends: 'Let's make a revolution for fun!'

Chris It's another of our marching songs.

Neil  Marilyn Manson would do this great. He's got the right kind of snarly voice. It would really work as a rock song. Kind of Euro-rock anyway.