nicely as a love song". With the band's songwriting going back and forth between harder and softer songs, they shifted to writing "Light Years", a track Kay described as having a "very heavy vibe". The fifth track, "Manifest Destiny", a mellow song with "a brass-heavy coda", was written when Kay read Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, telling of the mistreatment and massacres of Native Americans. The sixth track "The Kids" is an "aggressive" song with "mariachi-band trumpets and snapping bass" meant to "[capture] the feeling of the streets" and is about youth protests against the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act of 1994, a bill that outlaws unrestricted raves. It is the only track on which Van Gelder played drums. The seventh track, "Mr. Moon", is a love song with "incredibly complex chord structure[s]" about a girl whom Kay met at a rave but ended up with the band's keyboardist Toby Smith. The following track "Scam" is said to feature orchestral arrangements "with which Rich Tufo and Johnny Pate once draped Curtis Mayfield's soul-protest funk in stark grace". The next track "Journey To Arnhemland" is an instrumental that features didgeridoo playing. The ninth track, "Morning Glory", is, according to BBC Music, "laid back, a blissed-out joy; perfect comedown music with percussion darting from speaker to speaker." Halfway through recording the album, Kay found his turning point when he wrote the final track "Space Cowboy", while his drug use was "completely out of control and I was losing my mind". He further said in 2013: Release The Return of the Space Cowboy was released on 17 October 1994 under Sony Soho Square. In the United States, it released in 1995 under the Work Group. The album reached number 2 in the UK Album Chart and was certified platinum, indicating it has sold 300,000 copies in the country. In France, it was number 4 in its SNEP Album Charts, selling 347,000 copies. In the country's year end chart, it ranked number 31. The album peaked at number 9 in the Swiss Album Charts, where it was certified gold. In Japan, it ranked number 23 in the Oricon Charts, receiving a Platinum certification. The album reached number 37 in the Dutch Album Top 100 and sold 50,000 copies, certifying it as gold. Overall, the album sold 1,300,000 copies. In 2013, The Return of the Space Cowboy was one of the first three