Maybe in a reference to the Forty Foot promontorty (incidentally the place where the opening scene of James Joyce’s Ulysses is set), this song is about standing on the edge of a 40 feet cliff (12 metres), about to make the jump, and all the metaphorical ramifications of that.

This album was about to launch Franz Ferdinand into super-stardom almost overnight, and Alex Kapranos seems to have had a feeling about that.