Writing to Reach You

Single infobox
Name = Writing to Reach You


Artist = Travis
from Album = The Man Who
Released = March 8, 1999
Format = 7", 12", CD, Cassette
Recorded = ?
Genre = Indie pop
Britpop
Length = 3:41
Label = Independiente
Producer = Nigel Godrich
Chart position =

• #14 (UK Singles Chart)

Reviews =
Last single = "More Than Us"
(1998)
This single = "Writing to Reach You"
(1999)
Next single = "Driftwood"
(1999) |

"Writing to Reach You" is the first single from Travis' second album, "The Man Who". The single was released in the United Kingdom, Japan, and Australia. It earned Travis their first appearance on "Top of the Pops".

The song was written by Francis Healy, who admitted that he took the guitar chords from Oasis' "Wonderwall"; as an overt acknowledgement of this, the song contains the lyric "what's a Wonderwall anyway?". In 2004, both "Writing to Reach You" and "Wonderwall" were mixed with Green Day's "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" in the popular mash up, "Boulevard of Broken Songs".

Music video

The video for "Writing to Reach You" was directed by John Hardwick. It featured Healy walking in the countryside and being attacked by a pair of innocent looking schoolchildren. They pelt him with stones and even ambush him with a Bf109.

Track listing

*7" ISOM22S
# "Writing to Reach You" –3:41
# "Only Molly Knows" –3:20
*CD1 ISOM22MS
# "Writing to Reach You" –3:41
# "Green Behind the Ears" –3:39
# "Only Molly Knows" –3:20
*CD2 ISOM22SMS
# "Writing to Reach You" –3:41
# "Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah" –3:49
# "High As a Kite" –2:30
*Cassette ISOM22CS
# "Writing to Reach You" –3:41
# "Only Molly Knows" –3:20