Tales from Pornographic Ocean

The song's title is a play on the title of the 1973 Yes album Tales from Topographic Oceans. The title was initially selected for its phonetic sound, and the concept was then written around it. Mandrake, at the end of its lifecycle, added 2 pre-recorded elements to the song: English narration at the beginning (spoken by a foreign news reporter the band picked off of the street ), and clips of a woman moaning during a quiet part; both of those are omitted from the Unreleased Materials Vol. 2 version. The narration is intended to represent one's true feelings coming into conflict with one's expected societal behavior.