Including the new single, "The Beginning," The Forest Is The Path is an album rooted in reflection, introspection and interrogation. One of its key building blocks, says Gary Lightbody, was the idea of love from a distance, "I havent been in a relationship for a very long time, 10 years or more, so love from a distance to me meant the way a relationship sits in your memory from a distance of, say, 10 years. Thats not something Id previously thought about as a way to write about love. So, its like, when youre in love, youre standing in the lobby of the Empire State Building. When youve broken up with that person, youre out in the street. You can still see the building, but youre not in there anymore. And when its 10 years later, now youre standing in Brooklyn looking at the Manhattan skyline."