I Thought It Was Over

Singer Dan Gillespie-Sells set this love story around the fall of the Berlin Wall. He told the Daily Mirror January 11, 2008: "I remember very clearly the Berlin Wall coming down when I was 12. There was a real sense of joy, a sense that everything could change and that all the terror would be lifted. Obviously it didn't - a different kind of terror just replaced it. The idea of the song was that in relationships and in life generally, you do quite often go in circles. It started off like The Who's "Pinball Wizard," but ended up as a dance track."

This was released as the first single from the band's album Join With Us. In an interview on the band's website, drummer Paul Stewart was asked why "I Thought It Was Over" was picked: "Well, it was difficult - everyone was suggesting different songs as potential singles. That's a good problem to have, though. But even when we started work on 'I Thought It Was Over' in the big house, we thought it would definitely be the opening song to the album and potentially the first single. It's really upbeat and exciting and, on the face of it, quite unlike anything we've done before, although I think it definitely sounds like a Feeling song too."

In the same interview Stewart was asked about the plot for the song's video: "It's a little bit inspired by Close Encounters or ET. We're playing in a dilapidated house and some strange goings on are afoot. Things shake and electronics go weird, as if we are being visited by some other-worldly beings." He added: "The tune is very upbeat and dramatic, so we wanted a video that reflected that. And it's a performance-based video, to re-introduce the band."