knakker
...y sucks. It was hard to say goodbye to Gemma and her band last night. It's been such a great tour. I had so much fun. I think Gemma and I wrote about 20 songs on several occasions between the hours of 1 and 6 in the morning. Unfortunately the effects of alcohol poisoning have rendered the both of us unable to remember any of them. I tried to part of one of them and insert it as an intro to "A Long December" in Newcastle last night. I thought it was sort of lovely, but when I asked Gemma what she thought, she had no idea what I was talking about. She had more to drink than me that night as I was busy being sick everywhere. Or maybe it just wasn't a particularly memorable intro. You never know. Any opinions? "From the outside of everything to the inside of you" refers to many things, but mostly I think that's what communication is really all about. You try to get things across the gap between you and someone else. And the gap is huge sometimes. It seems like you have to come all the way "from the outside of everything".. Lovers try to cross it. Advertisers try to cross it. Everyone tries to cross it. I try to cross it when I try to take things I feel and make them things you feel. It's the great unknown. It's also a humorous take on it in the song. When the protagonist says in the 2nd verse that no one understands a word he says, you think it's a "deep" statement about lack of communication, except in this case, he's simply pronouncing the word "Aluminium" incorrectly. It certainly isn't about getting the band bigger in Europe. I try not to write things that simply need translation. That's...