– this song – as with most of the others – came through a process with my homeopath, where I was writing songs and taking them to our session and Tracey was prescribing. I would then go away again and write etc so we got onto a bit of a roll.

– the morning I took Falling Down in, Tracey told me she already had a remedy in mind. Twenty minutes before taking the song to her, I ran through it and added the last line on spontaneously, When I finished playing the song to her, she told me that the remedy she had in mind was Lac Defloratum (Cow’s Milk). She asked what a turnstile was? “I don’t know – one of those things you walk through in train stations? She googled ‘turnstile’ and ‘cow’ and we learned that turnstiles were invented for agricultural purposes. The first photo from her search was of a cow going through a turnstile on it’s way to milking in a rotary cowshed.

– during the time I wrote the song, I was fascinated with flexibility and had just bought an exercise book called The Happy Body by Aniela and Jerzy Gregorek

– I am grateful to Ben Fulton for suggestions regarding some key arrangement aspects of the song.

– the singers were mostly students from Kapiti College who had helped me in a live performance of the song 6 months earlier. My friend and fellow songwriter Ariana Tikao also joined the small choir.

– after finishing the song, I found the word ‘crustacians’ in the original collage my former partner gave me…