According to Gary Lightbody in 2013:

It’s one of my favorite moments. It’s a very simple song, one of my favorite moments on Eyes Open, our biggest record. […] This is kind of the quietest moment on there; you could make an argument for “The Finish Line” being the quietest moment, but this is certainly a very tender, delicate, almost paper-thin moment that is like a music box playing. That’s the sound that we were trying to go for.

In fact, we actually tasked a guy that builds music boxes to build a music box that would play the song so that on tour we could not only have the song played on the music box for the recording – like, whatever the song lasts, three-and-a-half minutes of the song, three-and-a-half minutes the music box would play that – but we could actually use it live. Just put a microphone on it and it would be like a beautiful piece of machinery that actually controls and conducts the song.

But the cost of the music box to be made was the same price as what we were paying to make the album, so it became prohibitive to actually do it! It’s a shame, it was a good idea. So unfortunately after all that story and all the magical elements of having that being a living, breathing organism, we had to fake it by playing xylophones and glockenspiels and various different plinky instruments, the thumb pianos and things like that to create that music box sound.

But there’s still part of me that, when I hear it, I hear the intention. I hear the music box. So there’s a kind of romantic imagery in that song for me, like the little ballerina turning. My aunt used to have a music box with that ballerina on pointe, turning around when I played the little plinky song. So that sort of conjures that in my head. It’s funny how a song that has nothing to do with something conjures that particular thing every time.

The video was recorded in Berlin, summer 2009.