Don't You Want to Share the Guilt?

Album: My Best Friend is You (2010)
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Songfacts®:

  • Nash explained to Mojo magazine March 2010 that this song refers to "panicking before you go to sleep - it's a bridge between the first album and this one."
  • Nash told The NME: "I wrote it in Australia. At the beginning there's this broken relationship that needs fixing but seems unfixable and it's quite frightening."
  • A demo version of this song appeared as a B-side on the single "Merry Happy," which was released on March 24, 2008 in the UK.

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