Moving On started life in Autumn 2002, and like so many songs of that era, took a very long time to be finished. Ironically, it almost got considered for Dusk at one stage, but was finally dispensed as a b-side, purely because it was a little old-fashioned.
The original chorus, which is the first chorus in the finished song, was written by Simon, but everything else was rewritten at some point along the way. At some stage it was merged with a song of mine called Yesterday Forever. It's actually gone through several incarnations, but the basic themes were always the same.
It's actually quite a deep song for us. The first verse was at one stage a comment about the fall of Apartheid in South Africa, whilst the second was about the Germans dealing with their war guilt. Around 2006, I went back in and took all the direct references out and made everything a lot more subtle, and I think it works a lot better for that.
Ultimately, it's about how we deal with our history - how do we decide which bits to ignore and which bits to remember? How can we ever begin to understand the evil things our ancestors did, and why do we commemorate them as heroes?
I think I'll leave you with that thought.
Hypernova are a synthpop duo from the UK, and here are some things which they have said:
