The Red Hand Files Index - pause

I hope you realise I’m asking as lord did this line on Wow O Wow from the new album give me a wtf moment, one that genuinely threw me. Surely not, I’ve misheard, he’s usually so measured, so beautiful, so right. But no!!! You actually sing, “She rises in advance of her panties”! Sorry if it sounds harsh, but I’ve never had a single line pause an album like that before. I’ve listened to the album many weeks now, and that line don’t shift, so I’m asking, did it give you pause? Were you actually happy with it? Should ‘panties’ ever be in a song lyric? Idk, but the line leaves me hitting the skip button. Anyway, I thought long and hard and decided to let you know. I hope you don’t take offence.

NEIL @ Issue no. 309