Nil Recurring - Song Details

Song Details

• The track "Nil Recurring" is an instrumental piece and features King Crimson guitarist Robert Fripp on lead guitar. Gavin Harrison plays "tap guitar" on this track.

• The chorus in "Normal" is musically very similar to the chorus in "Sentimental" since the latter is a further development of the former. The lyrics of both songs contain a response to each other: while the last verse on "Normal" says "Wish I was old and a little sentimental", the first verse on "Sentimental" speaks "I never wanna be old and I don't want dependence". The song has also a lyrical reference to the song "Anesthetize" from Fear of a Blank Planet in the phrase "I do a good impression of myself". According to Wilson's statement in the live performance We Lost the Skyline, the song was written in Tel-Aviv.

• The song "Cheating the Polygraph" debuted on the 2006 promotional tour for the Arriving Somewhere DVD, though its title was not revealed at the time. It was later dropped out of the tracklist for Fear of a Blank Planet so the band wrote "Way Out of Here" to replace the gap. On the LP version of Fear of a Blank Planet, "Cheating the Polygraph" is placed between "My Ashes" and "Anesthetize".

• Ben Coleman contributes electric violin to "What Happens Now?", having previously worked with Steven Wilson as part of No-Man. "What Happens Now?" also includes a riff featured in "Anesthetize", and lyrically it references Fear of a Blank Planet track "My Ashes." During live performances Coleman's parts are played on the guitar by touring guitarist John Wesley.