We all have our little home studios where we exchange tapes and pass around ideas. Around February 97, Planet was one of the little ideas that I had on mine. It's just a dropped D [alternate guitar tuning] situation if anyone cares. Just sort of very simple, it seemed like a relatively easy process to begin playing it. Everyone copped to it very well.

Planet is one of the older songs for sure - we played it a lot last summer on Roadside. So by the time we went to record it with Steve, we had a pretty decent arrangement, but there was something lacking that's for sure. Steve suggested solving it by making the bridge the chorus, and the chorus the bridge. It worked. What now sounds like the bridge used to be the chorus. Then there's the backup part that I do on it. A couple of people told me it sounds kind of Arabic, in its weirdness melody-wise.

Until we recorded the final version of Poets, Save The Planet was usually track one on our listening tapes. It's a song that's fun to play live. Paul Langlois