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The band's comments on the songs:

[scared]
Every single time he picked up a guitar Anders used to get stuck playing the same thing (the "Scared"-riff) over and over. I remember we all thought it was a great beginning of a song, but me, Nicklas and Anders had three totally different opinions on the melody. The verse ended up being a combination of two different ideas. Some of us were at the moment going through a severe Elliot Smith-Aimee Mann-period which probably had some influence on how the song turned out.
"Scared" was the last song to be mixed for the third EP. As always there was very limited studiotime so we (or mainly engineer Fredrik Andersson) were forced to work the whole nights through. I remember giving up and going home around 3 that night leaving Nicklas and Mattias as band representatives. Naturally the song occupied my mind the whole walk home. On the street outside my apartment I met my girlfriend (who I totally forgot to inform about coming home late) with tears in her eyes, she had been to scared to go to sleep (just like the lyrics in the song) and decided to go out and look for me.
So three events containing three different aspects of the song occurred simultaneously (and as a result of the song itself): Me walking in the night humming the lyrics, her being too scared to go to sleep and Fredrik finishing the actual track.

[so gently]
A big benefit of the song "So gently" is the way it absorbs, and adapts to different themes and arrangements. It has taken a lot of different forms both before and after the album recording. "So gently" is about insecurity, in a way "Scared" is a sequal to "So gently" - the same person is involved - but "So Gently" has more to do with denial than fear.

[can't do anything about it]
"Can't do" and "Neversong" were written a lot earlier than all the other songs. We were 19 or 20 and spend every night in the basement of Anders parents' house. I am not certain how to motivate the resigned manner of the lyrics or what may have caused it. Since it has been a couple of years my feelings for the song are mainly nostalgic.
I do remember that at a party some weeks after we had recorded the first version of "Can't do" on a demotape (which we forced everyone we knew to listen to) a girl who at the time dated Anders walked up to me and said "thank you" because she was positive the lyrics was about her. I didn't tell her she was wrong, not because I was afraid hurt her feelings but because she kind of convinced me that the song actually was about her. Once you have recorded something it really doesn't belong to you anymore.

[all contrast gone]
The vocals on "All contrast gone" and "Scared" were recorded at engineer Fredrik Andersson's parents house in Gränna - a beautiful small town by lake "Vättern", sort of in the middle of Sweden. The piano on all contrast gone was one of those impulse-overdubs, the instrument just happened to be in the right place at the right time (in this case Fredriks parents' grand Piano).

[broken tone]
During the rehearsals prior to the album the idea to record an acoustic track arose. The song most suitable was the song Broken tone from the fifth demo. "Broken tone" was the last song to be recorded for the ep. The idea was to capture the sound and atmosphere of the band playing the song acoustically live in the same room. No overdubs and no separation between the instruments. Tobias played the main rhythmic acoustic guitar and sang the backing vocals, Anders the lead guitar runs, Mattias played the accordion and Thomas played EMI's grand piano. Nicklas obviously sang the lead vocals. As we had run out of 24-track tape the track became live in more than one sense. Fredrik Andersson mixed it live down onto DAT. Four takes were recorded. The second take is the one which appears on the album.