[2] "Begging You" is a loud, cacophonous track with heavy drum beats, soaring guitars, pulsing bass and apocalyptic lyrics.

The rhythmic lyrics feature references to Aesop's Fables: "The fly on the coach wheel told me that he got it / And he knew what to do with it / Everybody saw it / Saw the dust that he made".

When Second Coming was released, Select invited several "experts, Roses associates and over-opinionated pundits" to review the album's songs.

Describing it as a "hyperkinetic rock/techno fusion of ballistic blues riffs and looped beats", and highlighting the churning groove and "turbine-roar" guitar, he felt the song accurately simulates "the panic rush of an E'd-up raver wondering how and why the rave dream's dying all around him".

[3] David Pollock of The Guardian named it among the Stone Roses' ten best songs in 2016, saying "it still sounds fresher than most of its contemporaries", writing: "It is to drum and bass what the Beatles’ Tomorrow Never Knows was to acid house".