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"Five Miles Out" has a complex structure despite its short length, and the lyrics are about Oldfield's experience of a near-tragic flight. Maggie Reilly sings with a clean voice while Oldfield uses a vocoder most of the time himself. Oldfield also sings a few lyrics in the "Piltdown Man" voice first heard in part two of Tubular Bells. The song features the same guitar riff that appears in the beginning of "Taurus II" and during the intro a keyboard quotes the opening motif to Tubular Bells, a trick that he repeats in later pieces such as "Crises".
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