How Can You Be Sure? Seen all good things and bad Running down the hill All so battered and brought to the ground I am hungry again, I am drunk again All the money I owe to my friends When I'm like this How can you be smiling, singing How can you be sure? How can you be sure? If you walk out the door Will I see you again? If so much of me lies in your eyes I am hungry again, I am drunk again All the money I owe to my friends When I'm like this How can you be smiling, singing How can you be sure I don't want you? How can you be sure I don't want you? How can you be sure I don't want you? How can you be sure I don't want you? I don't want you, I don't want you anymore I don't want you, I don't want you anymore

Originally released: May 1995 Found on: Fake Plastic Trees CD1 & Nowhere Movie soundtrack When this track was first heard on radio, in 1993, Thom noted that the title was only tentatively "How Can You Be Sure?" and that he hoped to change it. This never happened, though on the first Japanese issue of The Bends, which includes two bonus tracks, the song was called "When I'm Like This." The background singer heard is Dianne Swann, of the band The Julie Dolphine. Originally, it was thought that it was Ed's voice doing the background vocals, re-sampled, and that "Dianne Swan" was actually a joke, meaning "Dying Swan."

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