MICHAEL ON THE SONG
It's got a bit of attitude to it. It's a fictitious song built around this hair colour actually. In the 40's and 50's women used to dye their hair at home in their sinks and they called it 'dyed bytheir own hands' so they called it Suicide Blonde. I just like that imagery. I guess you could go deeper on it, I suppose it's to do with society's projection on how people look. Y'know, how this fictitious woman is using it to get what she wants, and at the same time it's using her. Y'know, the victim versus the victor.
ANDREW ON THE SONG
I actually wrote the song about missing my wife on tour. Kirk added some great stuff to the chorus of that song. That's a personal song to me, lyrically I hope someone else can relate to it. I'm sure a lot of people miss their families and friends over the years. Kirk is a great writer in his own style, he's a great singer to y'know.
ANDREW ON THE SONG
The song Lately was a song I worked on about the time of Listen Like Thieves. I went back and dug out all these tapes of discarded ideas, and then I go through them, because it's interesting to see where my mind was musically four or five years before that time. I do that a lot because it gives me inspiration.
MICHAEL ON THE LYRICS
It's a song about the moment when you sort of stop and start thinking, 'whats going on around me'. You don't notice things, sometimes you think everything is the way it was, then you realise hey wait a minute, everything's completely different, so it's a song about recognising that.
MICHAEL ON THE SONG
It's a song which is best described as a yell of joyous self-justification, a song that sounds prematurely optimistic post Kuwait. Maybe it's even pie in the sky.
