Consequences

As with many of the songs on Dusk, Consequences started life some time around the middle of 2004. In fact, this was a very late addition: if the album had been released a year earlier, this would have been one of the tracks that wouldn't have been on there. It was the last track to be completed for the album, last summer.

From memory, this was one of those very suspicious cases when some lyrics just fall into your head: most probably the Head in my hands / I regret those demands couplet. I liked the rhythm of the words, and just kept writing. That said, when I first handed the lyrics over to Simon, they were very incomplete - essentially I'd written the verses, but there was no chorus, so quite a bit of it is his work. Anyway, a few rewrites down the line, I think it sounds pretty good.

According to Simon, the riff was supposed to sound a bit like Delerium, but I doubt anyone else had ever spotted that - I certainly hadn't.

I had a number of ideas for a remix, so I volunteered to do one. Most of those ideas were things like a slightly breaky beat, with electro backing, and things like that. Of those ideas, a grand total of zero came to appear on the final remix. Somehow, it ended up a very laid back affair, in which the hi-hats were accidentally turned into bongos, and stayed that way. In retrospect, there are a few things I'd like to go back and change, but generally I'm pretty happy with how it turned out. Simon did a quick spit-and-polish, and then it ended up on the single.