 Eliot's "Four Quartets" (East Coker- movement number III) which seems to be a prominent influence on some other songs from the album (for example "The Mountains").Eliot's words are "[...] Or when, under ether, the mind is conscious but conscious of nothing - I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope"; the theme of that section of the poem is about the feelings of the traveler.East Coker is a small village in Somerset not far from Yeovil, where P. J. Harvey was born.