Everybody's Changing - "It's kinda about being stuck in one place and watching
everyone else around you moving along, and feeling a bit depressed with it
all.... (in a good way of course!)" - Tom - London ULU gig - 09/03/04

"Everybody's Changing is a song about something I think a lot of people will
experience, which is when people's lives start going different ways and you're
sitting there, thinking my friends are doing this, what I am I doing? What do I
do with my life? I think things like that are quite common to people and are
probably more important than a lot of things that people write songs about. I
mean, we haven't written any songs about politics. I think things like your
friends, communication and love affect peoples lives more on a daily basis than
who's in charge of the budget!" - gig101 interview - Source

"the song is about trying to work out where you are in the world, while some of
the people around you are going off and doing different things. tim wrote it
while we were really struggling to get anywhere as a band, and we were watching
all our friends move away and get on with their lives, while we were stuck in
battle getting nowhere, and wondering if we were doing the right thing. " -
Richard - messageboard - Source

"Everybody's Changing is definitely world-weary. I wrote that at a time when we
were quite low. We'd given up our London dream and had to slink back to Battle.
We were feeling really isolated as a band. All our friends were making their
way in the world and we were back at square one. Also, everyone I knew was
jettisoning who they had been and was trying to be cool. I didn't know whether
to go with that or not. I decided to stay my geeky self." - Tim - Times
interview

"I guess the fact is that if you write about what you really feel, the chances
are that a lot of people will probably feel the same way. So the things I've
written about on the first record obviously are very personal either to me or
to us as friends and a band, but by extension a lot of the songs are dealing
with a things that are very recognisable to a lot of people - maybe in
different contexts... Everybody's Changing is kinda written from the point of
view of someone in a band, which is what we were, just frustrated with everyone
who seemed to alter who they were. It's kind of an angry song, but again it's
sympathetic - I can understand why people feel they have to change. I just felt
when we were in our early 20s/mid 20s, suddenly I felt there was more peer
pressure, and everyone was desperately trying to be cool, and desperately
trying to leave behind who they had been before and try and reinvent themselves
as socialites - London types. And it's just trying to dupe people, who know you
weren't like that is just stupid; I find it insulting really, because it's so
transparent and yet people try and hoodwink you in that way. But I think
everyone is guilty of it, I'm probably guilty of it, so it is a sympathetic
song." - Tim - Strangers DVD

"I wrote Everybody's Changing some time in early 2002. I remember sitting at
the piano at my Mum and Dad's house one evening and playing the piano riff,
then writing a song to fit around the riff.

We were working on Bend And Break and some other songs at that time, and I
didn't think Everybody?s Changing was as good a song, so I didn't put much
effort into the demo. However when I played it to the Tom and Richard and our
friends at BMG Publishing (who had just signed us), they all loved it, so we
finished the lyrics and went to work on it properly." - Tim - keanemusic.com