Dissolution

The second single from Transmission was I'll Give You Electro, released in October 2011. There were three new non-album tracks, the first of which was Dissolution.


I'm not sure we ever really saw this as anything more than a b-side, but there's nothing particularly wrong with it either. The lyrics - particularly the second verse - feel distinctly to me as though they belong on Dusk, and so it should come as no surprise that it was originally written in about 2004.

The lyrics:

You dissolved into the air
Like a ripple in the breeze
Then you sank under the shoreline
With nothing left for me to breathe

Memories, your dissolution
Leaving me in isolation

Far beyond on a wind seeking freedom
And you’re never to be seen again
You dissolve, in a day you go higher
But you’ve never been this high before

Swept away into the distance
On a zephyr to be free
You drift off with leaves and martyrs
With no air left for me to breathe

Perfect times, no confrontation
Then you left this situation

Far beyond on a wind seeking freedom
And you’re never to be seen again
You dissolve, in a day you go higher
But you’ve never been this high before

Memories, your dissolution
Leaving me in isolation

Far beyond on a wind seeking freedom
And you’re never to be seen again
You dissolve, in a day you go higher
But you’ve never been this high before

Far beyond on a wind seeking freedom
And you’re never to be seen again
You dissolve, in a day you go higher
But you’ve never been this high before

And you’ll never fly this high again...

(R. Martin / S. Martin)

Shattered Mirrors

The second b-side for the Better Days single, released in April 2011, was Shattered Mirrors.


Broken Mirrors, as this was originally called, was essentially just an exercise in trying to push a metaphor much too hard, with lots of lines about "shards of you," and so-on.

Simon, meanwhile, was trying to build a simple dance track in the style of Sylver, but it didn't take too long before he had decided it sounded better at a slightly less manic tempo, with glass breaking samples to lighten the mood a little.

Caught next to a song called The Broken Generation and only one single after Broken, we were stuck with a bit of a dilemma for the title, so it ended up with the better name Shattered Mirrors instead.

The lyrics:

There you are, you see
You made me believe
Then my world caved in
With shards of dreams on me

There you are again
My fairweather friend
Look who turned my world
Into dust again

Everywhere I look are pieces of you
Shattered like the day it ended for good

Too far gone to ever be repaired
Too late now to ever be the same

There you are at last
You live life too fast
And always forget
That I was here first

Everything I see is battered and bruised
Scattered when the hope I clung to diffused

Too far gone to ever be repaired
Too late now to ever be the same

Everyone I knew has sided with you
Left me on the ground, and found something new

Too far gone to ever be repaired
Too late now to ever be the same

Too far gone to ever be repaired
Too late now to ever be the same

(R. Martin / S. Martin)