The first song is Plainsong and it's a very quiet, atmospheric, pretty doomy sort of song. It's about an incident that happened late last summer... What's next ?
Simon : Pictures Of You
Robert : what's that song about ?
Simon : It's a jolly song which is better for you to explain.
Robert : Jolly ?
Simon : It's a jolly tune, isn't it ?
Robert : Yeah, sort of... I think it's about the idea you hold someone. It goes back a bit to a song like How Beautiful You Are on the last record. The idea of you hold someone isn't really what that person is like. Sometimes you completely lose touch with what a person has turned into. You just want to hold onto what they were.
Next song is Closedown, that's a song I wrote about six years ago. And it just shows up and it hasn't changed much. I still feel the same way. What's the next song ?
Simon : What's the next song ? Lovesong.
Robert : That's self explanatory. Just for people.
Simon : Last Dance.
Robert : Last Dance is a bit the same as Pictures Of You really. That's someone that you meet and you haven't seen for a long time. And you used to have very strong feelings for and you don't anymore, you suddenly realise... It's a horrible sensation.
After that, it's Lullaby. It's about the inability to sleep, or the fear of sleep really. What comes after Lullaby ?
Simon : Fascination Street.
Robert : Fascination Street, the American single. That's just to do with obsession. That's another song about what happens to you if you're in a group and you get too much attention. You do too many things like this. And you become obsessed with the idea of yourself.
And that goes into Prayers For Rain. Which is a song about futility, a key song on the record.
That blends into The Same Deep Water As You which is a frustration you get doing something like this with people always imagining that you're going to be much better than you actually are. And really let down when you do normal human things. It's my reaction.
That goes into... Disintegration itself which is just a rant really. That's the anger on the record.
Homesick... That's pretty self explanatory as well. That's sort of about being away doing things you don't really want to do, becoming obsessed with being fixated which is what we tend to be more and more with the time I think.
And the last song is Untitled which hasn't got a title because I couldn't figure out what it's about really. It's about the devil futility. I suppose that's the other key song. That's the low point of the album but the high is like the other side, Lullaby, Pictures Of You which is quite up really. And overall I think it's quite an uplifting record, strangely enough. That wasn't supposed to be with the title Disintegration. When you listen back, you actually... I feel quite good about the whole record.