Just had fun rereading all the posts in this thread, especially the really early ones from before I signed up. Songs on this album generate such a wide range of for and against responses, seemingly almost randomly as I move from post to post.

Authority - it is one of my 2000 lifetime ambitions to actually know why they wanted to leave this off the main disc. Too Starfishy? Lyrics too personal or capable of being misconstrued as such? I don't get it.

A few people have mentioned how Authority seems like an attack on a controlling female. But it's not just that because it seems that the male character has done something that's got him into that controlled situation. Most likely sleeping about. He's mourning his predicament but it's partly his own fault.

"You sleep like a baby precious as a ruby" - just occurred to me this might be directed to a character other than "she", a child perhaps.