Coyote

Originally written for the P-Model album Monster, "Coyote" is a Western-style song, following on One Pattern's "Astro Notes".

The song's lyrics were themed after the death of Yukiko Okada, a teenage idol singer who killed herself by leaping out the 7th floor of a building, which led to a short-lived streak of copycat suicides at the time (referred to as "Yukiko Syndrome"). Hirasawa feared he would be perceived as a trend-chaser however, and wrote an all-new set of lyrics for the song. No performances of the Okada lyrics are known to have ever happened and they've never been released to the public.

The current lyrics are about coyote, the trickster figure in Navajo mythology.

Versions
P-Model recorded this song on their single day of studio recording for the album. This version has never been released; in the joint Teruo Nakano/Yoshikazu Takahashi interview on the Music Industrial Wastes book, Nakano wonders if the song was sent to Alfa Records at all.
 * Monster, 1987
 * Susumu Hirasawa - vocals, guitar
 * Yasuhiro Araki - drums, electronic drums, percussion
 * Teruo Nakano - bass, backing vocals
 * Yoshikazu Takahashi - systems, backing vocals

Live performance by P-Model, done at a faster tempo than other versions.
 * The Physical Atlas of Three Worlds, 1988
 * Susumu Hirasawa - vocals, guitar
 * Sadatoshi Tainkana - drums, electronic drums, percussion
 * Teruo Nakano - bass, backing vocals
 * Hikaru Kotobuki - keyboards, backing vocals

Has an unique bridge, and a spoken segment that happens over the second-to-last repeat of the chorus.
 * Water in Time and Space, 1989
 * Susumu Hirasawa - vocals, all instruments
 * Shingo Tomoda - drums, electronic drums, percussion
 * Keralino Sandorovich - coyote voice, backing vocals
 * Kazuhide Akimoto, Michäel Saturnus - backing vocals

The bridge is reworked as carnivalesque "winding up" segment, which is also played as the intro of the song. On the last repeat of the chorus, the arrangement gradually thinnens, from full band to just backing vocals with guitar and drums, to guitar and cymbals, to just cymbals. Over the last two iterations of the chorus, wind ambience surges up, segueing the song into the next track, "Dune".
 * Error CD, 1990
 * Susumu Hirasawa - vocals, guitar
 * Hikaru Kotobuki, Kazuhide Akimoto - keyboards, backing vocals
 * Katsuhiko Akiyama - bass, backing vocals
 * Kazutoki Umezu - wind synthesizer
 * Shingo Tomoda - drums, electronic percussion
 * Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Nurse - strings, horns


 * 6th Formant, 2017

Connections

 * The guitar riff of the song first appeared on a commercial jingle for Teijin's Wow store in Chuo, Osaka (released on the Model House Works tape included with the first volume of the "Moire Club" newsletter). The riff was reused for a country-style arrangement of "Boat" (a snippet of which was included in Bitmap 1979-1992) some years later, from which "Coyote" developed.
 * "1778-1985" and "Cowboy and Indian" are further songs that mention, respectively, the trickster archetype and Navajo beliefs.