Neil It was written in some rented studio about the Same time as 'Suburbia', and when we went to New York to remix 'Opportunities' with Ron Dean Miller in Unique studios we were having such a good time that we announced we were going to stay longer and do another track with him. EMI generously agreed to carry on funding us. They were now well up to £100,000 of costs and we hadn't released a record yet. Ron Dean Miller played the guitar. We were being a bit like 'Into The Groove' again.

Chris Not specifically. We were being New York.

Neil  Ron Dean Miller suggested I change the phrasing of howl sang it.

Chris It used to be 'why don't we live together now?' but he said, 'Leave off the "now".' And it was Ron Dean Miller's baseline. Md the drums at the beginning are fantastic.

Neil  It sounded much more American. But that version [CD2, track 5] is not the version we released. For the album, we worked on it some more with Stephen Hague. He spent ages reprogramming all the drums for it.

Chris It's ace. I don't know why it wasn't a single.

Neil  Ron Dean Miller could not understand the line 'the woman in me shouts out, the man in me just smiles'. I always like presenting things upside down, so in this song men are indecisive and women are decisive, whereas the stereotype used to be the other way round. It's probably about someone I fancied, but I can't remember. I'm saying that the woman in me responds to emotion and the man in me doesn't -it's that my soft feminine side wants to settle down. That's what the song is really about: settling down, compromise. If you will never find someone who you are totally in love with, who you are intellectually compatible with, physically compatible with, never going to get bored with sexually, is incredibly good-looking - if you're not going to find that person, you're probably going to settle for the person whom you're used to.

It's the compromise of reaching middle age. A very old-fashioned idea. People say, 'you've got to work at a manage', and I think that's true. The people in the song are being wise. You both know you're kind of in love but you're messing around and eventually one person is saying to the other, 'why don't we just Face the fact that we're going to live together for the rest of our lives and get on with it, and we will be happy?' It has some of the same words as the end of 'Opportunities': '...all the love we had and all the love we hide'.