Someone Else's Dream

I imagine psychologists have field days with people's songwriting. Or maybe it's all just a shade too easy for them? Either way, I don't think they would get much out of this one. Even so, there is a story behind it...

Between 1999 and 2001, our songs changed gear completely, both literally and metaphorically. Where previously we had done everything on one or two keyboards, suddenly we were using "synthesisers". But perhaps more to the point, where previously we had taken influences from pop music, we started to look at literature, books and politics.

But this song is not an example of that. Instead, it is something of a relic of that inbetween period, where songs seemed to be about something very profound, but actually weren't. In fact, it was as simple as having a list of good words and phrases, and working them together into a song.

Which is not to say that it's without its interesting references. You'll find references in there to a song by U2, a book by Susan Cooper, and, perhaps most surprisingly, Kalihari bushmen (actually, we wrote a whole song about them once).

The song first acquired some music in early Autumn 2003, but somehow didn't get released until the end of 2007. One verse got ditched, and then reinstated; and a whole album got released while it wasn't looking.

And so that's the story of Someone Else's Dream, which I haven't sold very well, but you can find it on the back of our single The End.