Try Again - "Try Again - that was another song that I actually wrote at home
rather than on the bus, when we had a break in touring and I just remember
being really pleased with it, because I wrote it in one of those periods when I
was convinced I was never going to write a decent song ever again - probably
being very melodramatic about the whole thing. But you do get into those sorts
of periods of writers block, and Try Again just came out quite easily. And I
didn't really know whether it was any good or not, but I played it to Tom and
when we were in Stockholm last year we did a demo of it, and I remember sitting
in the control room when Tom was singing it, and just getting absolutely
goosebumps from hearing him sing it for the first time. It just transformed the
song into this beautiful modern love song, and that was a real moment in the
story of the album because it suddenly started to feel like things were coming
together, and that we could still create music together in a really exciting
way - so it's one of my favourites just from a personal point of view.

Without me really wanting it to, it came out as a very modern ... - I always
think about it as being a commuter's love song. There's something weird about
that feeling of being on a train really really late at night when there's just
a handful of you there, and I always wonder what everyone's story is -
especially people who've been to work and probably got up at some horrendous
hour of the morning, and they're traipsing back to their home somewhere in the
suburbs. And it always seems to me, as if youth has started to be replaced by a
dreary routine, and with that all the hopes and dreams of being a young person
gradually, without even noticing, they start to ebb away; and a love that's at
the start of the marriage or whatever it is, just starts to disappear. And it
seems like there's something seriously fundamentally wrong with the way we
conduct our lives in Britain definitely - it's probably the same all over the
world - and it always makes me really sad, and I guess the idea of the song is
just as if... when it gets to the middle 8 of the song, it's as if your eyes
opened for a moment and you suddenly realise you've waited so much time and
want to have one chance kinda grab it back and make up for all that lost time.
It's a really sad song, but it's one of the few songs on the record that has a
sort of glimmer of hope(!)." - Tim - Podcast 5 (12th June 2006)