Broken Toy - "Broken Toy I really love, probably because it came together so
quickly, and was really easy(!). But that's definitely a song about ... well,
it's particularly a song about the relationship between me and Tom. We've known
each other our whole lives and we've always had a very 'brotherly'
relationship, and that yields all sorts of great positive things, but it also
occasionally tips over into sort of bad things because you know how to cut each
other more deeply than anyone else does. It's just a way of confronting that, I
suppose - just the fact that our friendships were changing. I guess it's a plea
to try to cling onto that and not just let it slip away and not do anything
about it until it's too late. It's a very explicit way of dealing with that,
and I think it's quite a good example of how the album was for us; when you
can't even talk about those things in normal everyday life, it's quite hard to
be singing about them in a song, but I guess it's just our weird way of dealing
with things(!).

Yeah - Tom's singing a song that I've written about him. But I think the great
thing about the way we make music is that anything that I write is almost
reflected in what the other guys feel most of the time, and that's why things
work so well for us creatively. There are lots of songs that I write that the
other guys just don't get - they might mean a lot to me, but unless the song
really touches a nerve with all three of us, we won't do anything with it
basically. But yeah, Broken Toy is a really intense one for us. It's great to
be able to sing about those things, and to play that music and feel that you're
somehow dealing with those things on a really primal level." - Tim - Podcast 6
(19th June 2006)