 All of the tracks on "Honi Soit" were written by John Cale, except for "Streets of Laredo", a traditional song arranged by Cale about a dying cowboy telling his story to another cowboy.The track "Need Your Loving" was left off the album in favour of "Riverbank".American artist Andy Warhol suggested that the album should be called "John and Yoko", and provided the cover art, in black and white, but against Warhol's wishes Cale colorized it, a decision recounted by Cale on the song "A Dream" from his 1990 collaboration album with Lou Reed about Warhol, "Songs for Drella".