Final Form

Album: Man Alive (2010)
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  • There aren't many songs about changing shape until life peters out, but you can count this quietly menacing fantasy in as one of them. Lead singer Jonathan Higgs told Spinner that the imagery "came from somebody I knew who couldn't really move." He added: "I'm not a particularly energetic person, and it made me think a lot about the fact that I spend all my time sitting around moaning that I'm too fat when I could easily get up and do something. And some people can't. It's kind of, 'Pull yourself together, use your body.'"

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