 "Going to a Town", the album's lead single, was considered by "Uncut"s John Mulvey to be among the angriest lyrics Wainwright has written, an "indictment of the country of his birth that hinges on the refrain, 'I'm so tired of you America'".The political track, which Wainwright claimed he wrote in just five minutes on the eve of his departure for Berlin, confronts the Bush administration's perceived damage to the U.S. in the form of a love song.It was his discontent with America at the time that lead Wainwright to spend some time recording the album in Berlin.