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The Sun Always Rises I got out of bed one morning, hung over and feeling kind of depressed because I had recently broken up with a guy. I opened my curtains and looked out of my window and the sun was shining, I was suddenly feeling good about things, I got dressed, had something to eat and went out for a walk, during that walk I met someone who I was destined to become great friends with. That’s essentially how I wrote that song, and that’s pretty much what it’s about. It’s about seeing the light and realising that the sun is always shining somewhere in the world. Where Do You Go When Your On Your Own It’s pretty self explanatory. What would happen if you never knew anybody, what if you had no friends or family, what would you do with yourself, would you go to the same places if you were alone or would you spend all your time at home doing nothing.
The title is pretty much saying it all, where do you go when your on your own, I think everybody has that special place which means so much to them, I know I do, but I don’t think it would have the same effect if I was all alone and had no one to go there with.I’ll Give You A Good Time I guess you could interpret it as a song about sex which I guess is understandable but if I’m honest it’s just about having fun, It doesn’t say anything to do with sex but it could be seen that way. You get these people who spend there time in front of a computer screen all the time and they don’t live you know, they don‘t go out and get wild or they don‘t do anything out there, whether that is something as high profile as sky diving or something as small as having a party with a couple of friends, I know people like that and I just wanna grab them and just say “fucking live a little“.Don’t Be Gentle Again this could be interpreted as being a song about sex, but that’s not what I particularly intended when I wrote it. It’s about those kind of people who think that all girls are small and vulnerable and incapable of taking care of themselves. Guys think it’s there job to look after us and it’s really not, not for me anyway, I can handle myself. It’s basically a song saying, “don’t think just because I’m a young girl, I need someone to look after me.”Rip Up The Rulebook I think at one of my first gig reviews I said this song is kind of about Steven Tyler of Aerosmith, it’s not specifically about him, It’s about that full on Rockstar type of thing, you know someone like Slash, Anthony Kiedis or Nikki Sixx, who should really be dead, when you read all the crazy things they’ve done, I love to read about Rockstars story’s and those three guys fascinate me, They should have died a long time ago but they’re still here. And the title is basically, they’ve ripped up the rulebook because the rulebook would have them dead by now but they‘re not. I hope that makes sense. English Girls Are Easy (So You Think) Right well this song isn’t necessarily saying that English girls are easy or that they’re not easy. It’s sort of an open opinion about it. It’s basically saying sometime you can go somewhere in London and you’ll find that English girls are indeed easy, some of them would fuck anything that offers, and then in other places you get these girls who are so uptight, they won’t fuck you unless you’ve got a promising sporting career or you have an expensive car. So what I’m saying in the song is that there’s really no in between, your either easy or your uptight. Obviously that’s not 100% true, but it makes for a decent song. A Tender Kiss It’s a sort of flip side of the English Girls Are Easy song, It’s more saying even though I love sex and stuff, there are times when all I want is to just have a tender kiss. There’s the lyrics, I know it’s hard to resist/I know you think I’m easy/But you can have a tender kiss. That pretty much sums up the whole song. Obviously the single blew up on the charts and I’m so grateful for that, it’s probably gonna be seen as the song I’m most famous for, for the next couple of years, which again I’m so grateful but it could get a bit old I don‘t want to be seen as a one trick pony, I do believe that there are at least 4 songs on this album which are better and hopefully people will go, oh she’s actually got a number of great songs but it‘s been incredible how well it has done.A Whisper In The Wind It’s a recurring theme, a song about loneliness. I guess it’s what most people are afraid of, I don’t really have any fears of heights, spiders, closed spaces or anything like that, but I guess my only fear would be being lonely. The song is about a girl living in the same town she grew up in and realising that she’s the only person from her youth who still lives there, it’s about realising that everyone has gone on to follow there dreams and this girl is just working at a boring old dinner or something and her life isn’t going anywhere.Remember Winter I’ve always preferred winter to summer, winter feels nice and cosy and if you’ve been in love over the winter months then you can relate to this, If you’ve ever just sort of stayed at home and watched a film with you boyfriend or girlfriend and you kind of feel really safe. It’s basically about wanting that cosy feeling again even thought it’s no longer possible.Your Love (Leads A Girl To Drink) It’s about the age old debate of girls just wanting to be with arsehole guys, it’s about being in a volatile relationship and it would hurt less if I’m drunk. When in all honesty it would be better to just end it, it‘s the simplest decisions that are the hardest to make. An Unbreakable Bond It’s about a friendship, a friendship bond which is pretty much impossible to break. A friendship can be the most special relationship you can have at times. If you have the right friends then everything can be fine, you don’t need anything else which I think is something that people don’t understand very much. Most 16-22 year old girls think that it’s so important to be dating when really there’s no rush, have fun when you can. Lovers In A Cold Bed The cold bed thing isn’t as literal as it sound, it’s meaning is the coldness between the people in the bed but they realise that they don’t want to be on there own even thought they’re relationship is non-existent. Lovers In A Cold Bed, means two people who were once perfect for each other and so in love have grown apart but neither of them wants to end the relationship.Don’t Look Back It’s about going for your dreams, the chorus is pretty simple, “Aim For The Stars/And Don’t Look Back.” it may come across as corny or whatever but it’s something I’ve been thinking about for a long time before I got signed. What benefits will you get from not going for your dreams, it’s better to try and fail than wonder what might have been. The Young & The Restless It’s sung by a fifteen year old and an eighteen year old. It’s a mix of my sort of rock sound and Michelle’s big voice, it fits pretty well. It’s a song about being young, pretty simple, it’s kind of similar to I’ll Give You A Good Time, in that it’s kind of me saying well why would you want to stay at home all day and not live life, when your young you want to be going out with friends and that’s the restless part of the song, hence the title. When I’m in London I barely spend time at my apartment, I use my apartment for sleeping basically, I’m always on the move, I’m young and I’m restless.Whores In The Backstreets Pretty self explanatory, it’s a song about whores in the backstreets. You walk down any busy town’s backstreets on a weekend and you’ll see a number of whores. It’s kind of like a story of a whores life, it‘s empty and it‘s a lonely existence, obviously I have no frame of reference but the story is about how I think a whores life is really like.I Have Better Sex On My Own Again the title says it all, I think it’s fair to say this one won’t be released as a single. It’s a pretty fun songs, it’s not deep or anything, it was just me with a guitar, a couple of drinks and a couple of friends singing a song about masturbation. It’s not hugely graphic but I don’t think parents will want their 8 year old daughters singing it. But like I say it’s a pretty care-free song. It’s not taken seriously and I think that’s a pretty good way to go into song writing.Edited by user 17 August 2010 00:16:32(UTC)
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