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1	How To Be Dead	3:23
2	Wow	4:05
3	Gleaming Auction	2:06
4	Whatever's Left	2:41
5	Spitting Games	3:48
6	Chocolate	3:11
7	Run	5:57
8	Grazed Knees	2:56
9	Ways & Means	4:49
10	Tiny Little Fractures	2:28
11	Somewhere A Clock Is Ticking	4:34
12	Same Backing Vocals [Extra] – Iain Archer	3:54

Credits

• Arranged By [Strings] – James Banbury
• Bass, Keyboards, Songwriter [Music] – Mark McClelland
• Cello – James Banbury (tracks: 7 to 9, 11)
• Drums, Songwriter [Music] – Jonny Quinn
• Engineer – Dan Swift
• Engineer [Assistant] – Jeff McLaughlin
• Guitar, Backing Vocals, Songwriter [Music] – Nathan Connolly
• Mastered By – Louis Teran*, Stephen Marcussen
• Mixed By – Chris Lord-Alge (tracks: 5, 6, 7), Garret Lee (tracks: 1 to 4, 8 to 12)
• Other [Publisher] – Big Life Music, Windswept Pacific (tracks: 7, 9, 11)
• Photography – Drew Jarrett
• Piano – James Banbury (tracks: 6, 8, 9, 11, 12)
• Producer – Garret Lee
• Recorded By [Piano] – Ben Georgiades
• Songwriter [Music] – Iain Archer (tracks: 7, 9, 11)
• Viola – Bruce White
• Violin – Alison Dods (tracks: 7 to 9, 11), Fiona McCapra (tracks: 7 to 9, 11)
• Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards, Glockenspiel, Backing Vocals, Songwriter [Music], Lyrics By – Gary Lightbody

Notes

US promo CD in jewel case with front and back art work.

Mums and dads of the world be patient with your children.

Recorded at Brittania Row Studios, February 2003.
Piano Recorded at Sphere Studios.
Mixed in the garage. Kent.

Produced and Mixed for Big Life Management.
Mastered for Marcussen Mastering, Hollywood, CA.

Line-up:
Gary Lightbody
Nathan Connolly
Mark McClelland
Jonny Quin

Total Playing Time: 43 mins, 58 secs

Other versions

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
9865408	Snow Patrol	Final Straw ‎(CD, Album)	Black Lion Records , Polydor	9865408	UK	2003
B0002376-36	Snow Patrol	Final Straw ‎(SACD, Album, Hybrid, Multichannel)	Polydor, Fiction Records	B0002376-36	US	2004
9865454	Snow Patrol	Final Straw ‎(CD, Album)	Polydor, Fiction Records	9865454	Malaysia	2003
B0003756-82	Snow Patrol	Final Straw ‎(Hybrid, DualDisc, Album, Multichannel, NTSC)	A&M Records, Polydor, Fiction Records	B0003756-82	US	2004
9866089	Snow Patrol	Final Straw ‎(CDr, Album, Promo)	Polydor	9866089	UK	2004