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מפי טים, שגם ענה על שאלות נוספות ממש כאן.
מפי טים, שגם ענה על שאלות נוספות ממש כאן.
Tim replies: It's a complicated story. I actually started writing the song about my wife. It was during the height of the touring for 'Hopes & Fears' and I knew she was finding it difficult with me being away all the time and so many people other than her demanding my attention. She was always great about it, but I guess I was trying to say how grateful I was that all she asked was to be the person that I returned to each time all the chaos died down. I was trying to write it from her point of view, and that's what the first verse is about. However, when it came to doing B-sides for 'This Is The Last Time', I suggested doing 'Hamburg Song' even though it wasn't finished. That meant that I had to finish the lyrics very quickly in the studio, and when I sat down to write them, what came out was a kind of an outpouring of emotions about my friendship with Tom. I think it was the first time any of us had really articulated the negative effects that all the fame and touring was having on our friendships - I don't think we'd even thought about it very much before that point. Anyway, I was really proud of the lyrics, and when Tom started singing them it was really electrifying and powerful. As soon as we heard it we knew we had to save it for the next album. Unfortunately we'd also already decided to save the other B-side we had planned, which was 'Thin Air'. So, with our one day of studio time rapidly disappearing, we had to rush to get another song together. We chose to do 'Atlantic'. So we recorded a version of that, but a couple of days later when we were listening back to it in Germany we realised it sounded like an amazing song to open the next album with, so we had to pull that from the b-side of 'TITLT' as well! So we rushed into a studio in Stuttgart and did 'She Opens Her Eyes', which turned out really beautifully. That was all we had time for before the deadline, so we had to use the demo of 'TITLT'
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