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7. Hey! Housebrick This is a concise pop song about a house brick hurtling towards a car’s windscreen. The song documents the creeping claustrophobia of small-town living and the destruction and devastation produced by such negative forces. I wanted to write about an occasion where this guy in the town I grew up in smashed every single shop window through the village and ended up by lobbing a brick into the traffic in the motorway.
8. We Played Ourselves (Ain’t Nobody Else’s Fault) This is an instrumental song named after Ice T’s ‘You Played Yourself’ from his 1988 classic, Iceberg.
9. Boy Awaits Return of the Runaway Girl This song had completely ridiculous working titles that I won’t go into right now. This song was written about a couple I knew who broke up when she went to University whilst he stayed around the town smoking weed. She met someone there who was a cock and only realised this when she came back for the summer. They lived happily ever after, once he stopped smoking weed.
10. The Dice Just Wasn’t Loaded From the Start This song was first conceived on a train ride between Finsbury Park Station and Brixton on the way to a We Are Scientists show where we were playing as support. There were a whole bunch of versions floating about that didn’t stick so I rearranged it for acoustic guitar and asked Dave Davison of Maps and Atlases to contribute his expertise when we got to Chicago to record the album.
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11. The Anchor This is a Minutemen song. We covered it because we spend pretty much all of our spare time listening to them.
12. This Thing Forever Seems To Last Forever This is about realising that forever lasts for a really long time. It’s about the closure of a relationship and the final realisation that things are totally finished. That kind of insight can send you a bit mad, and in this case that’s exactly what it does. A mission of destruction through the city is embarked on until the next day is upon us.
13. Found Sleeping A dead lake or dead zone is where areas of water contain too much algae so that the water is starved of oxygen and nothing can grow there. This is about a broken and brittle band sleeping in the van by the edge of a dead lake. I suppose it’s about being at the bottom of your game and resorting to blind hope to get you through whatever mess you got yourself in.
14. Sparrow Flew With Swallow’s Wings This is nearly impossible to play and sing. It contains words so quick I sometimes have to travel back in time in order to land them. The words are pretty straight forward. It’s about being sad about a girl like most other songs in the world…
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