Harper uses the game of cricket as an overwhelming metaphor for death, emphasising this by making it the last track on the album. He implies that, though a loved one may be dead, the memory never fades, and they can often be imagined to be alive, or still in the game, as he has it ("If sometimes you're catching a fleeting glimpse/Of a twelfth man at silly mid on.") Death has no favourites ("it could be Geoff and it could be John" - the song is dedicated 'to John Snow and Geoff Boycott and to England, my dear home'), but acknowledges that this is maybe just slightly drunken musings ("it could be the sting in the ale"), finally realising that it comes to everyone ('it could be me and it could be thee'). Harper states on his website that the inclusion of the brass band was a tribute to the he