In the Moonlight

If Dusk is our autumnal album, In the Moonlight is definitely the most autumnal track on it, and in a way defines the mood of the whole album.

For a long time, I kept a list of 'good titles' for inspiration (I suppose this habit stopped when I realised it was a bit silly to write a whole song around the title, although it means we now have the problem that we can never think of titles for songs). One of these was 'The Devil in Winter', and there were probably some others here as well.

From that blossomed a slightly confused track. I have a habit, or rather had a habit when I was writing the lyrics for Dusk in particular, of using the second verse to turn the song on its head, and this is an example of this. At the beginning the narrator is clearly having trouble understanding, but the blame is placed at the feet of the person the song is being sung to, whereas by the time the second verse comes around, the truth is starting to dawn. And I think by the last bridge, the explanation has been found.

It's always fascinated me that a song consists of maybe twenty or thirty lines, with no more than 150 or 200 words altogether, and yet somehow in that you have to try to find a way of telling a story. Well, unless you're just stringing random words together, of course. But that's a story for another day.

Sadly though, neither of us remembers an awful lot about writing it, so we haven't got much more to say here...