She's been walking by the river
Writing letters to her friends
She's got a lot to say
Cos there's a new beginning and an end
An opening has come
To make herself someone
Searching for a place she might belong

Wheelspinning gives you satisfaction
Wheelspinning and a slamming door
'Cos all the talking in the world don't matter
When she won't be back here anymore

There are necessary chances
Better taken open-eyed
That's how decisions are
Reflecting on the feelings deep inside
The reckoning has come
And stepping out alone
Now she knows a part of her is gone.

Wheelspinning gives you satisfaction
Wheelspinning and a slamming door
'Cos all the talking in the world don't matter
When she won't be back here anymore

Wheelspinning is the main attraction
Wheelspinning gonna get you more
There ain't a wangle in the world to stop her
When she won't be back here anymore

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Sherrie: This song has an unusual story behind its creation. A girl at the place I was working gave me some lyrics a friend of hers had written, and I wrote a tune and chords for them. I never met her. I reckoned the tune I'd written was pretty good so I wanted it for the band, but the lyrics weren't really that hot, so Duke wrote another set for it.

Duke: It was a pretty big job replacing somebody else's entire lyric, including the song concept and title. Having written the rest of the lyric I kept failing to find a decent hook line in the chorus, and at one point I thought I was going to have to start again by coming up with a decent hook first and then rewriting the rest of the song around that. It was particularly difficult and I ended up having to invent a new word which encapsulates the whole theme of the song in Sherrie's three-note hook. The other unusual thing about this song is that it has a third-person story-type opening verse to it, which is something I don't really do much in Candy Channel.

Sherrie: This song also features my big notes - the D and E above soprano high C - on the intro.