3 Wide

"Is this, um ? Is this the, um ? 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 ?"

Straw lines, (straw lines)
White lines, (white lines)
I'm yours, you're mine

3 lines, (3 lines, 3 lines)
I'm yours, (I'm yours)
You're mine (ine - ine - ine - ine - ine)

Straw lines (straw lines)
White lines (white lines)
I'm yours, you're mine

Straw lines (straw lines)
White lines (white lines)
I'm yours, you're mine

Tree lines, outside
(tree lines, outside)
I'm yours, you're mine
(I'm yours, you're mine)
mine
mine

Lyrics by:
Squire

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

Details:
The following extract is from a 2001 issue of Q magazine ('The 100 Best Covers Of All Time', in which the Roses' debut features), in which Squire is talking about his post-Second Coming artwork. The 3-metre-wide butterfly*, 'Léger City Butterfly' (oil and acrylic on canvas, 91" x 120", 2001), an homage to the abstract expressionist work of Fernand Léger (1881 - 1955) , possibly 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."

Squire's piece uses the left hand side of Léger's 'La Ville' (1919), making a symettrical pattern in the shape of a butterfly. 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.

* Perhaps the large butterfly in this picture of the artist Harry Smith was an influence too.

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