Just wondering, because they aired HAND live before the lyrics got re-jigged - are the lyrics to the songs actually finalised i.e., has the album actually gone into production. I'm really disliking the simplistic words and phrases they are using post-2000. They used to produce lyrics with the same artistic manner as they approached the melodies, such as on 'These Days' and 'KTF' but now we just get nothing to think about or ponder. No deeper meaning behind the songs, just take-it-as-it-is, unsubtle blurb.

It sounds better than I thought it was going to given all the speculation about it being 'country' and, in some parts I'd even go as far to say it sounds Springsteen-esque but I'm not won over by it so far and there have certainly been no stand out tracks, not even the title song and the lyrics, as we've come to expect, let even the better songs down.

Waiting for it's release with a little apprehension methinks...