Wires

Wikipedia's song page credits all four members, and the album page says all tracks were written by Athlete; Victor Van Vugt and the band produced it, with strings by Adam Peters recorded at Abbey Road. The single came out in the UK on January 17, 2005 on seven-inch and CD and in Australia on March 21, with a radio edit of 4:05 against the album's 4:20, and B-sides "Never Running Out", "Get It Back" and "Transformer Man". It reached 4 in the UK, their highest-charting single, 3 in Scotland and 15 on the Eurochart Hot 100, and was 85th on the UK year-end chart. David Chaudoir directed the video at Orford Ness, a former military test site on the Suffolk coast. It won the Ivor Novello Award for Best Contemporary Song in 2006. Pott has said he wrote more openly about personal experience on the album; we found no primary interview on what the song is about, and leave its subject unstated.

In 2012 Rylan Clark performed it on The X Factor, and the original re-entered the UK chart at 40 the next week. Setlist.fm lists it in 89 setlists, second to "You Got the Style" at 97. The Upcoming called it always a poignant moment in a set at Shepherd's Bush Empire in May 2013. The BPI certification is given variously as Gold and Silver. The upload is presumably the album version.