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"That song was a song I wrote after seeing a Roger Water’s concert and being completely blown away by it. This is probably the greatest thing I’ve ever seen live in terms of concerts and I won’t see anything better than this. So and I went into thinking I kinda wanna write some sort of a dark Pink Floyd thing, maybe and that was kinda my mind set going into it. So and it later turned into something and it got a lot more expansive and I did a demo and it was a little bit less structured than the version is of the song on the record and Brendan came in and helped arrange it and beautifully put in some piano on it and Ed wrote these lyrics in Los Angeles when he stayed up all night and he was listening to all the sirens coming and going at the hotel and kinda thinking about how his life is and how it could turn out to be coming from anyone of us and how we’re grateful that it’s not right now so it kinda blows you away when I heard the lyrics he put over the track eventually when we recorded it in the second session."
- Mike McCready on ‘Sirens’