Just a dreamers song really. I used to work in an advertising agency once...quite a long time ago. It was a mad place. People would be on top of you all day long...it was insane - but at one o'clock every day I used to lock the door. Once the door was locked I'd play some quiet music and just sit there. "We Close 1-2" was what I used to say to people. The final "you're not getting in!" - it was like a mantra. I suppose it's about people who do jobs they don't particularly like and just keep going by dreaming of something else. I like the line "The moment when you know you'll sleep"

The biggest, best chorus I've ever written, a single I think.

I used to be out in the country in Ireland late at night and I'd see shooting stars. Except I'd notice they moved very slowly right across the sky, moving east to west. They were really satellites. I found a website somewhere on the net where you can get the exact time that a satelite goes over where ever you are in the world and you can just wait for them to go over.

A song about falling in love again.

Everybody working on the record was pissed off that I wanted to put this on the album. I wrote it quite late in the proceedings but I thought it was so good it had to be on the album. They all hated me but I think it was worth pissing them off for this.

I was living in Termonfeckin in Co.Louth, out in the country in Ireland, staying up late. When I started to write the song I wrote about the birds outside in the early morning and things happening at dawn, the countryside and all that type of thing. A little alarm went off in my head. I think about nine million songwriters have done this before so I ended up writing about the inside of the kitchen I was in. The way the colours looked coming in the window in the early morning. The blue light on the cooker. The lines "the hardened sugar on the sugar bowl, the bottom of the grill" just little nitty gritty stuff...the way a kitchen would look in the early morning...kinda ordinary looking extraordinary.

One of the first songs I wrote back in Ireland. The solar wind mentioned in the song. Just love the sound of it. Sad song...somebody somewhere will hear this and say he hasn't changed. Great Brian song. Up there with "Planes Stacking Up".

"When life creeps up upon you, gives you anything you want". Happy days living in Termonfeckin. Summer. Happy. Very, very happy.

The best thing on the album. Very interested in what people think of this..."I'm losing touch with all the things that were so close to me, the books I read, the person that I you used to be". It's just about me...the way I am right now. "What became of the music that made me feel?" - anyone feel like this?

This song had a second verse that originally went "Dublin seems the cruelest town and it's full of Cranberries tribute bands" but everybody at the studio got on their knees and pleaded with me to take it out. They even persuaded passerbys to plead with me to take it out and I finally did. What's it about? Like I'm gonna tell you!

Perfect song to follow. Really simple. Dumb I suppose. Made perfect sense at the time I wrote it. Loops in a lovely cycle.

Sometimes the best songs are the simplest. Some people have said this is the best song on the album. There's a funny story how I got the title. I was in a bar in Dublin just after I moved back to Ireland, it was quite late and I bumped into a Dublin band manager. I didn't know him and I'd never met him before...he just came up and said to me "You're Ken Sweeney, you bring trouble everywhere you go". And with that he just walked off.That was it. I was kinda drunk and it just stayed in my mind. I Bring Trouble do I?

Kraftwerk had this thing if they got a bad review, they'd take words of the review and turn them into one of their songs. So I had this challenge to make what this bloke said into a Brian Song...did I succeed?

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This song was due to be called "We Came With Pat Dillion". The old drummer from The Harvest Ministers. I used to use his name to get into a lot of parties. (Those words always got you in the door.) It's really a song about the pub closing, getting chucked out and stumbling home with your girlfriend........"This road is wrong, I think that maybe we are lost"