Singled Out: Scarlette Fever

I was lucky enough a few years ago to get the opportunity to write with the lovely Paul Barry. At the time I was going through a rough break up and arrived at the studio having had about 5 minutes sleep the night before. Several coffees later Paul started playing a really lovely riff on the guitar and I started humming a melody. I'd love to say that the lyrics wrote themselves but I never find that to be the case. I can spend days, sometimes weeks agonizing over lyrics. I love the details that Carly Simon adds to her songs and the imagery that she creates out of the mundane normality's of life. That's what I wanted to achieve in the verses. The inspiration for the middle 8 came from something that my mum said to me. When I was telling her about the song she said that it reminded her of an advert she'd seen; a picture of the world with each person represented by a light. It's comforting to know that when you're pacing the floorboards in the middle of the night you're not alone; somewhere probably just around the corner someone else is doing the same thing. It's a really simple honest song and that was the approach that we took with the recording...It's all about the guitar riffin' and the words.