1. When She Comes Down
- a song about transience and the attempts to keep the unique moment of a gig you share with loads of people
- contains the phrase Who looks over my shoulder
- about Tom's search for confirmation
- about the desire to a neverending love
5. Slow
- the international single
- guest-appearance Karin Dreijer Andersson from The Knife
- the first single in Belgium
- an ode to Richard Buckminster Fuller, an American scientist, architect, poet and designer
- a beautiful story about somebody who turns off his ego and uses his genie for humanity
- it contains edited samples of Fullers voice
- sung by Mauro
7. Is a Robot
- a critic on the life Tom was (and is) living
- all routine is deadly for creativity (also the routine of having a party every day)
- could be a song from the Pocket Revolution-sessions
- includes a beautiful piano refrain
- a song about love’s regret.
- guest-appearance by Guy Garvey from Elbow
- an old-world, super-romantic Technicolor lovesong
- a lilting meditation upon the transitory nature of beauty
- about actrice Maria Scheider, Tom's personification of eternal youth
- Scheider was brilliant in Last Tango In Paris (with Marlon Brando)
- contains raggedy choirs singing philosophical choruses over strings and a veritable Phil Spector Wall Of Sound.
If you have additions to this list, just leave it in the comments or drop me a line.
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