Becoming a Jackal

O'Brien wrote it. The album's cover is the drawing that inspired the song; he told an NPR affiliate that is where the whole album began, and Cherwell says it started as a sketch later used as the artwork. The single came out on April 17, 2010, five weeks before the album. It won the 2011 Ivor Novello for best song musically and lyrically, and O'Brien said the Ivors are less commercially driven because they are voted for by other musicians. He performed it on Later... with Jools Holland in April 2010. We found no verified studio, personnel, chart, video, cover or setlist data for the song.