Track number 11 on James' eleventh album Pleased to Meet You. The track combines a light, fun shuffling rhythm with light fun lyrics. The lyrics seem to describe a circle around what it was like to be Tim Booth at the time the album was being fashioned - Tim was on the cusp of the decision to leave the band, a decision he announced in October 2001, half way through the Getting Away With It Tour.
The song intones confusion and a series of seemingly unrelated images, and yet comes back to the insistantly upbeat refrain: "I feel fine"
Fine
I'm a boomerang
In the outback
Keep your throwing arm steady
So I get home
I'm a vampire bat
Out in Shanghai
Haven't eaten in four days
I've ordered in a Chinese takeaway
I show more than I hide
I care more than I cry
I'm a phonograph baby
My wires are live
And I'm in crisscross
Fine. I feel fine.
I'm a fortune cookie
Full of cheap advice
I'm a suicide rookie
Blowing last call
Show more than I hide
Care more than I can cry
I'm a phonograph baby
My wires are live
And I'm in crisscross
Fine. I feel fine.