Chris I went into the studio on my own and did an entire backing track by myself, which I loved, and handed it over to Neil to write some lyrics.

Neil I’d written a song on the guitar before I knew Chris, a rocky kind of thing called 'I heard what you said'. When I originally wrote it I'd literally just heard 'Love Is Strange' and 'Tainted Love' on the radio-originally it said 'songs like "Tainted Love" and "Love Is Strange" and "Yesterday"' but 'Yesterday' got taken out. I took these words I'd written and started singing them to Chris's tune. It's about unrequited love. At the beginning the narrator is really saying,

'I want to wake up from this nightmare of unrequited love' and by the end it has changed to 'I want to wake up with you'. Which was a single by Boris Gardiner, but that didn't occur to us until afterwards. The idea is that being with someone is like a dream, or a nightmare. We got Shep Pettibone to produce it. The 'oooo-oooo-ooo-ooo-ooo's are a complete New Order rip-off, from 'Everything's Gone Green', I think. At the end of the song I'm doing harmonies for the first time. On this album, everything was trying to be more ambitious than Please. We also mixed a more atmospheric version, without drums, to see what it would sound like [CD2, track 1], but it was never released.