Another instrumental and the shortest track on the album yet it went through more arrangements and re-writes than anything else!

The genesis of this song was Chris' suggestion; an instrumental reprise of What I Mean To Say that leads into the following track, The Watcher.

Version 1.0 was Chris improvising on his classical and following the main song very closely. It took less than thirty minutes to write and record, we were both quite pleased. It's never that easy though... Dan heard it and thought that we were off in the wrong direction and more could be done with existing chord sequence. I was quite keen on the idea of this number so pushed Dan to submit some ideas...

Version 2.0 was Dan's baby. He wrote a synth string part and recorded a very unusual and impressive bass line. Remember the bass line for What I Mean To Say was all my work, so I found Dan's bass over the same chords very interesting it highlights the different approaches and breathes new live into it. Dan's timing is also very complex, but it is a standard 4/4.

This version was passed over to Dan's dad Chas who is a lead guitar player. Again a different player produced a different interpretation, in particular I found the opening line excellent. However the chord sequence is quite deliberately unusual (Chas err cursed me a few times) and I understand limited time was available so a usable take was never completed, but a little bit of opening magic was captured.

Version 3.0 was a combined effort by Chris and myself. I was becoming aware that this track was in danger of happening without me! So I learnt Chas' opening guitar solo and then wrote the closing section. Finally Chris and myself ironed out the backing synth parts, in particular using some brass to augment the strings was Chris' suggestion. The final cherry ontop was DJ Flywheel working on the mix with me.

After three versions it was finally done! It's worth noting that the sound on this track is a little 'bigger' partly because it was one of the last things recorded and I had access to more modern equipment. A few mental notes for album #2 were made...

Why the title? Dan suggested using a line from the following track, there are several in the form of <line>.... the watcher. A literary que, that indicates this is just before The Watcher. We simply took the title from the most repeated phrase: "that's the curse of... the watcher".

All in all it may sound throw away, but remember the structural rule of three. This is the second instrumental of the album, just enough to make the listener comfortable with instrumentals so I can sneak up with a huge instrumental further down the line...