b'FEATUREFRAN HEALYand thinking, Oh Im sure I wrote something and I remembered that thingI never think, OhI thought was a verseIthis is a chorus orfound it in the archives of my brainand stuck the twoa verse, its just athings together. And it wasthing that you writelike, Wow! They lyrically and melodically went perfect together. But the verseLondon and I recorded thewho said, off-record at the wasnt written with the thingthunder and then the songend of the interview, Looks Id written in the Middlestarts. Then I played theguys, I really like this record, East in mindit was just ademo to Andy Macdonaldbut its commercial suicide, moment. I never think, Ohand he was like, Thatsand we were like, Oh f**k! this is a chorus or a verse,fucking great. Good, nowAnd, of course, all the its just a thing that younext! That was it. Then Ireviews came out and they write. played it to the band andwere just shit, they were the I remember it was a littleworst reviews weve ever The bridge part came inbit faster at first, almosthad. But we managed to Madrid. It was like twothe same tempo as Tiedget one of the songs on the oclock in the morning, ITo The 90smore jauntyradio, and they hammered wrote the verse and I thinkand upbeat. Then we didit, and that was Why Does ItI got the chorus, and then Iit and I was like, Oh thatAlways Rain On Me?wrote the bridge to connectsounds shit, lets slow the two. I think that wasit right down, and I the only bit that was kindremember we all went, of manufactured, and itOh no theyre going came very quickly. I thinkto love that, thats the middle eight also camegoing to be the one quickly. The song wasthat people like!definitely finished within 20 minutes or something, it wasThen we sort of had very fast. It was so random,a record, but it wasnt even the writing of it then,until we were cutting that I wasnt aware that itit at Abbey Road with was anything specialit[sound engineer] Chris was just another idea. It wasBlair that I remember written on the same Kimbarahearing it all put acoustic guitar that I writetogether going, Shit! all my songs on. TheresThis really hangsReleased: 2 August 1999something about the tone ofwell, but it was veryArtist: Travisit that goes with my voice. quiet and subdued,Label: Independienteand completely After Madrid, we went onin opposition toSongwriter: Fran Healyto Beth Ortons tour and Ieverything that wasUK chart position: 10remember leaning againsthappening in the a pillar in some university,charts and on the between soundchecks, andradio at the time. So strumming it to myself going,I think we all thought Thats a solid song. Thenwe were doomed. Then we I made a demo of it. Therehad an interview with MarkFirst published in Songwriting Magazine, was a big thunderstorm inBeaumont from the NMEAugust 2019. Reproduced with permission. HEYMUSIC.COM 2932 SEPTEMBER 2019 HEYMUSIC.COM 33'