Dreams

Noel: "'Dreams' was one of the early ones, as well. It's probably, I don't know, maybe about the fourth or fifth song. It's hard to remember, cause it's like five years ago, but it was one of the early songs. Again it was just a very simple tune that we came up with and it just kind of came together really quick."

Sunday

Dolores: "It was, uh, written on a Sunday." :)

Pretty

Dolores: "Sometimes it takes you a long time to realize that you have a lot of beauty in yourself. And I think at that stage I realized that I had beauty in myself, even though I wasn't like a supermodel or anything like that, but I think that every woman has beauty in herself, and sometimes they have problems seeing it in themselves. I think it was kinda written at that stage when I saw it in myself, and I saw it in other women that didn't see it in themselves. And it was kind of a song that states that every woman is pretty for what she has and what she is."

Waltzing Back

Noel: "At the time it was probably the heaviest song that we had done to that point, and it was kind of totally different from everything else that we had done, so we were all mad about it. I think it's probably the only song that we've done in every gig that we've ever done. We've played 'Waltzing Back' at every gig because it's just one that we really, really like."

Not Sorry

Dolores: "I wrote that one after our first album was tossed over by the british press and stuff n the british press started to laugh at us and, uh, we had some major, major problems, and it ended up kind of affecting me personally."

Linger

Mike: "It was our first song that we ever wrote together. The first time that we ever met Dolores, like, Noel had the chords to it and he had the song done, and he gave it to Dolores and within a week, like, we had the song wrote. So it was actually really good, that that was the song that actually made us, like, was really the first one, so that was cool."

Put Me Down

Dolores: "There was one particular dark shadow in my life trying to put me down."

Ode To My Family

Dolores: "Ya know I spent a long time trying to get out of the home, and get away from that whole parent scenario and be a rebel and stuff. And I did kinda, ya know, run away from home and all that type of thing... against my mother's will and everything... And I think at that point I realized that I really missed them all ya know... I realized how good it was."

I Can't Be With You

Fergal: "'I Can't Be With You'... it's more of a pop-y kind of song. The message in it is like loneliness when you're on tour and stuff, missing people at home, so I can definitely relate to that."

Zombie

Dolores: "'Zombie' was inspired by a child's death. His life was taken in the arm's of his mother. She was shopping in London last year, and there was a bomb planted in a rubbish bin in London and he happened to be at the wrong place at the wrong time and he died. The reason the bomb was planted was because of a political territorial kind of thing that goes on in the North of Ireland and the UK. So the references to 1916 was when a contract was signed, which signed away the 6 counties to England. And it still goes on today: the war, the deaths, and the injustice."

The Icicle Melts

Fergal: "'The Icicle Melts' is a sad song. You can really feel the sadness in it when you listen to it."

Dreaming My Dreams

Fergal: "'Dreaming My Dreams' I think is cool. It's like something you would sing to your child before going to bed."

Yeat's Grave

Dolores: "A tribute to Yeats. W. B. Yeats, he was a poet and playwright."

Daffodil Lament

Fergal: "I think 'Daffodil Lament' is kind of an epic or something, because it's really a long song; it's all different moods and stuff."

Hollywood

Noel: "'Hollywood' is a song about fantasies. You have all these dreams and all these posters in your bedroom, but at the end of the day it's down to you, your life, and how good you make it."

Salvation

Dolores: "The first single, 'Salvation,' is kind of a satire. It's about the whole drug thing. Drugs are lovely. You get out of your head and all of that stuff, but then where do you draw the line? And it's [about] the parents who want to tie their kids up to keep them in. It's a joking, light-hearted song about a really serious topic."

When You're Gone

Dolores: "'When You're Gone' is a really nice love song about missing someone and maybe not appreciating them fully until they've left."

Free To Decide

Dolores: "I wrote the song 'Free to Decide' when I came to a major decision that I would not let what had happened to me get my life out of control, that I would keep my feet on the ground, that I wouldn't turn into a junkie and kill myself. [When] you start to see things like the sea and plants, you come down to earth again and realize it's a beautiful world we live in. And then you have to go back on the road, and it's like, S**t, I was just getting into being a normal person and smelling flowers and all that crap. And now I have to go back on tour and be a superstar."

War Child

Dolores: "I love children and I received a letter from Brian Eno who asked me to design something for the 'War Child' Fashion Show which he was involved in. Due to my schedule at the time, that didn't happen, but I was moved by Bosnia and that morning, in my hotel room, I wrote the song in about 10 minutes. Children suffer most of all, whether it's Bosnia or the bogside. It's sick -- they're so vulnerable."

I Just Shot John Lennon

Dolores: "I was reading a book about John Lennon's life. I could relate to the fact that when you're a famous person everybody wants to tell you what you should do and who you should be with. Everybody judges you all of the time. I always thought that people judged his relationship with Yoko a little too much, that obviously the man was in love with the woman, and [people] should have left him alone."

Fergal: "For the gunshots at the end of 'I Just Shot John Lennon' we tried to figure out how many times he got shot. I don't think anyone found out so we just guessed at around five."