The Twilight Hour

Album: Soul Mining (1983)
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  • Speaking to Mojo magazine August 2014, The The mainman Matt Johnson said this was the "most painful" Soul Mining track for him to listen to now. He explained: "I wanted this sense of sweltering heat, claustrophobia, emotional paranoia. The anxiety and insecurity of a new relationship. I think I got that."

    "But the lyric 'cutting chunks from your heart and rubbing the meat from your eyes...,' that's really over the top," he continued. "I was a kid when I wrote that."
  • The song features cello played by Martin McCarrick, who would go on to be a member of Siouxsie and the Banshees from 1987 until 1995.

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