Priest came up with the drum pattern during a break at Wessex Sound Studios, which Clark, Miller and Jones overheard. They promptly expanded on this to a full song. "Ain't No Longer Asking" comes across as a mix of "Loser" (1993) by Beck and "Rocks" (1994) by Primal Scream. Discussing "One of Those Rivers", Miller said when they were driving through Scotland, their tour manager would take an alternate route via Northumberland. On one occasion, Priest commented on the view he was witnessing; Clark wrote some words down and showed Priest a few months later. He came up with the first verse of what would become "One of Those Rivers", with Priest writing the other verses. Tim Kent of the Rockingbirds contributed banjo to the song. "Prey for Drinking", "Jack the Lad" and "Long Life" form a musical suite. "Jack the Lad" dated from five years prior, when their manager once sent the band to a farmhouse in Hendre-Ddu, Wales, where they came up with the basic form of the song. Consumable Online writer Tim Kennedy said the song's lyrics "appear to refer to a certain lad's excess and bad behaviour leading to the inevitable". Miller thought Clark had his son in mind when writing "Long Life", alongside Animal Farm (1944) by George Orwell. "U.K.R.I.P." retreads the lyrical theme of "Grand Old English Oak Tree" from their debut studio album The Dodgy Album (1993), with an emphasis on what Miller saw as "trying to distance ourselves from the jingoistic, xenophobic bullshit that Britpop was throwing up". He thought they were evoking the Clash "via Future Sound of London and maybe Senser". Priest wrote the song's chorus and second verse, while Clark wrote the first verse. The album's closing track "Homegrown" was written before the band's album of the same name and did not fit within the rest of that material. They had previously recorded a version of the song at the Tardis studio in Liverpool; as they were unable to replicate of it during the Free Peace Sweet sessions, they opted to take portions of that original recording. Release "In a Room" was released as the lead single from Free Peace Sweet on 27 May 1996. The 7-inch vinyl version included "Out Clubbing", while the CD version featured "Self Doubt", an acoustic version of "Long Life" and a remix of "U.K.R.I.P." renamed "Jungle UK (No Rest in Peace)", which was