Fish's Introduction to Lady Let It Lie


Lady Let It Lie falls into the same area as Kayleigh, and a lot of the other ballads, that I am probably better known for, and like all the lyrics, its all based on personal experience to some extent, although some characters are changed to protect the guilty. During that desperate recession that Britain went through, there seemed to be a lot of friends of ours, whose marriages and relationships were all getting broken apart, or were going through heavy periods of friction, and every time we met up, it was always heavy arguments kicking around. And Lady Let It Lie, it was about the couple who were getting to that point in their lives where they realised that perhaps their dreams were no longer achievable, and they were turning on each other, and blaming each other for the fact that they weren't living in the nirvana that they thought they were going to be living in. It was a strange song, in that it brought myself and my wife closer together. When the lyric was glued together, it seemed to draw us in, and made us examine ourselves a little bit more, and I think that we both realised that in order to get through a lot of the bad patches, it's a lot safer and it's a lot easier to get through the rougher times when you're together rather than apart.