Wayne's Notes from the Album:

"I was playing electric guitar, Michael was on fuzzwah bass and Steven was on the drumkit and we stumbled upon this druggy prog-rock riff and stuttery, funky beat. It was like Black Sabbath getting mashed up with Sly and the Family Stone or Stevie Wonder, and it sent us off in a wonderful new direction. The idea of a magic wand and magic powers occurred to me while watching a homeless guy in Oklahoma City. He was, I believe, Vietnamese, and had a cool looking wizardly beard and mustache and he carried a long stick, which he used as a kind of cane-weapon. And one day I saw him fighting an 'imagined' enemy and the long stick became (as best I could tell) a kind of magic wand that made his invisible foe retreat. I mean... it seemed to give him a confidence that allowed him to defeat his hallucinations... and at first I thought 'how sad... he believes this old stick is saving him' ... but the more I thought about it, the more I envied him in a way... for the evil manifestations of his mind he invented a sparkling sorcerer's baton to lead his psychic revolution... yes!!...

And so we delved into a kind of radical protest rock mentality... We sing, 'We got the power now, motherfuckers, that's where it belongs,' but I believe it's cosmically empowering - not actually empowering. In the song, we rail against the greedy, corrupt evil beings who are in control and trying to enslave us... But our rebellion is simply to fight back - we have no solutions."