[分享] Tim`s Strangeland Track-By-Track (Part 2)
6 - ON THE ROAD
This is the last song I wrote for the album. It started off feeling a bit more
country, but gradually got more and more energetic. It's one of my favourites -
I love the optimism of it. The feeling of being on an adventure, sleeping under
the stars and so on is all stuff that I love - I had just been reading Woody
Guthrie's Bound For Glory. And I think it has some of the grace and acceptance
that recur in Watch How You Go and In Your Own Time. It's already a real
highlight of the set when we play it live.
7 - THE STARTING LINE
I wrote the tune for this in the back of the bus on a boiling hot day in Boston
in the summer of 2010. It was right after the show, and I was first on the bus
so I cracked open a cold beer and picked up the guitar, and this spilled out
straight away. That's my idea of heaven. We were in Lincoln, Nebraska a couple
of days later and everyone had gone off to get some rest in the hotel. The tour
bus was parked up outside for the day so I thought I would go on there and be
able record the piano and vocal for the demo without disturbing anyone. Anyway
I was singing away merrily when I felt the bus pull away and before I knew it I
was heading out of town - I ended up doing most of the demo outside a Walgreens
in the back-end of nowhere. I'm not sure the bus driver ever realised I was on
board.
I like the idea of having to almost make a physical effort to get back on track
sometimes, if you get really low or things just aren't going right. It's a very
sympathetic song, and I think it a good articulation of the human sympathy that
is a big part of what ties the album together.
8 - BLACK RAIN
This is a very impressionistic song, written very quickly and drawing on
imagery from Ari Folman's amazing animated movie Waltz With Bashir. Every album
of ours has a song on it that talks about war, and on Strangeland this is the
song. I feel the tone of the song, a bit like the movie, is more about trying
to understand, and seeing things from a very human point of view - which is in
keeping with the atmosphere of the album as a whole. It's one of the pieces of
music of which we're most proud.
9 - NEON RIVER
When I was moving house back down to Sussex a couple of years ago, there was a
huge metal container in the garden with all my music gear in. I was unpacking
boxes one day when I had the idea for a song, so I had to go and stand in this
cold dark container, fight my way to the piano which was buried under boxes and
rugs and so on, and try to sketch out this idea. I like the line about the
bowling alley walls. When we were struggling to get anywhere as a band back in
2002-2003 we would meet up every day to rehearse songs, and when we got bored
we would go down to the bowling alley outside Bexhill. We got quite good. We
had bowling names for each other too. I think mine was Terry.
When I was a teenager I went out with a girl who seemed to have so much
confidence and had all these plans and dreams about seeing the world and doing
lots of great stuff. Deep down I always felt too scared to go anywhere or do
anything, a source of much shame to me. So I felt somewhat left behind. I think
I'm still haunted by that feeling even now. But I've always loved being by the
Thames, and seeing the lights of the City of London and the South Bank
reflected in the water.
10 - DAY WILL COME
This is a pretty simple pop song, but it took me years to finish it. My
recollection is that I started it in about 2005. The theme is similar to
Silenced By The Night, and it's very uplifting and optimistic. I love the line
"sometimes our fingers graze the sky but we can't hold on". The theme of
chasing a dream through life, trying to navigate the strange land your dreams
lead you into, is the underlying theme of the record, and I think that line
sums it up pretty nicely.
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