Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Point of No Return

This takes us into our last week of comments from Dusk. You're probably relieved to hear that; I know I am.

This was another track I started just after Christmas 2002. The person singing the song is basically saying that they wish they had taken things a bit more slowly.

It somehow got overlooked when we put together Empires, which is possibly a shame, as it probably would have been on there if we hadn't forgotten about it. Then it very nearly made it onto Dusk as well, but in the end, it was dropped because the album was looking way too down-tempo as things were.

It's quite a powerful song really (in a very laid back kind of way). The only other thing I want to point out is the not-entirely-intended reference to the Rail Riders comic strips I vaguely remember reading as a whippersnapper: "By quirk of fate..."