3 Wide

"Hello. Is this the room ? Is this, is this, is this the room ?
Uh, I suggest, that uh, yes it is. Are you the one that, uh ? Are you the one that, uh ? Are you the one that, uh ?"

Starlight (starlight)
White lines (white lines)
I'm yours, you're mine

Three lines (three lines, three lines)
I'm yours (I'm yours)
You're mine

Starlight (starlight)
White lines (white lines)
I'm yours, you're mine

Starlight (starlight)
White lines (white lines)
I'm yours, you're mine

Three lines, outside
(three lines, outside)
I'm yours, you're mine
(I'm yours, you're mine)

Lyrics by:
Squire

Available on:
You Can Talk To Me single (as b-side) (5.08)

Details:
The following extract is from a March 2001 issue of Q magazine ('The 100 best album covers ever'; the Roses' debut is placed at Number 5), in which Squire describes his post-Second Coming artwork. The 3-metre-wide butterfly, 'Léger City Butterfly', an homage to Fernand Léger (1881 - 1955), one would imagine, relates to the song 3 Wide:

"Since then, there've been a few things that no-one's seen. I did some plaster casts of my own hand, some sheep and rabbit skulls painted in a floral pattern called 'It's Sophie's Birthday.' And a three-metre-wide butterfly - that's the biggest thing I've done. I also made a hand out of a metal bucket using my cousin's electric welder.

"At the moment I'm concentrating on the oral rather than the visual. I should paint more, really. But every time I turn round to do it I can't find the brushes. I always paint on the floor. An easel's too serious - I have this aversion to berets and palettes and capes. I'm sure doing more painting would make life easier - instead of reaching for the Nurofen."

 

Top left: Squire carefully positioned in front of 'Léger City Butterfly.'
Top right: 'Léger City Butterfly' (oil and acrylic on canvas, 90" x 120", 2001), from the Manchester exhibition, May 2004.
Second row: 'La Ville' ('The City') (1919) by Fernand Léger. Squire's artistic work focuses on the left hand side of Léger's 'La Ville', using the disc shapes to create butterfly markings via symmetry. In 'La Ville', overlapping and layered planes depict urban density, and fragments show the speed of urban experience. The broken views of billboard texts and images indicate not only the multiple stimuli available in the city but, even more, the speech with which residents traverse urban space. Léger was a French painter, sculptor and filmmaker. In his early works, he created a personal form of Cubism which he gradually modified into a more figurative, populist style. His boldly simplified treatment of modern subject matter has caused him to be regarded as a forerunner of Pop Art.

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