We Might As Well Be Strangers - "This song is kinda about being forced to be
away from someone you really love." - Tom - London Basement gig - 26th February
2004

"This is a song about not being in love with somebody anymore." - Tom - London
Hammersmith gig - 28th March 2004

"As you get older you realise that things just get more complicated and it's
just never a simple 'everything's delightful' - I mean I find that I feel very
happy with that side of my life, but at the same time there always bad things
and always difficult things, and I'll always like taking those and expanding on
them and thinking where they might go and using those as ideas for writing. I
don't know if that just means I'm a 'glass half empty' person or whatever, but
in a way those are the most interesting things to write about - it's not
particularly interesting to write a song about how 'everything's really
lovely'. I think people are just very interesting, and those sorts of funny
things that people say and do, and you don't really know if they're good or
bad, but they're just weird. The way people behave to each other is so strange.
We Might As Well Be Strangers is definitely one of my favourites songs I've
written because it's so ... unbelievably depressing. I feel that it builds up
and it just sort of explodes, it's like it smoulders along for a while and then
there's a big cry of frustration, and then it just hangs its head, and then
goes back to the "for all I know of you now" bit. It's a very sad song. - Tim -
Strangers DVD