Walk Another Mile

Album: See You In The Stars (2022)
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Songfacts®:

  • This highly singable track is the second single from See You In The Stars, the first Lightning Seeds album since Four Winds in 2009, 13 years earlier. The subject matter of the song belies the upbeat melody; it finds two lovers on the outs, with one asking the other to try walking a mile in their shoes, as it might not be an easy journey.

    Ian Broudie of Lightning Seeds explained: "It's about two imaginary people arguing about the end of a relationship and blaming each other. I had that thought and was thinking about endings. I was listening to a lot of Northern Soul, and the little vignettes you can get in those songs. I love writers who can do that, write stories - Squeeze, The Kinks, Eminem. I always start off doing that, but end up nowhere near it, so this song is the closest I'm going to get to that."
  • Despite the long delay between albums, much of See You In The Stars was completed quickly when Ian Broudie realized he needed to get the album done in order to meet certain deadlines, like giving it enough lead time for a vinyl pressing in time for Christmas. This was good motivation and made him bear down. "It was a burst of pragmatism, to a degree," he told Songfacts.

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