"I Thought It Was Over" is a soft rock

Soft rock

Soft rock is a style of music which uses the techniques of rock music to compose a softer, more toned-down sound. Soft rock songs generally tend to focus on themes like love, everyday life and relationships. The genre tends to make heavy use of acoustic guitars, pianos, synthesizers and sometimes...

 song performed by British

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

 band The Feeling

The Feeling

The Feeling are a BRIT award-nominated English pop band from West Sussex and London. The band categorise their music as "pop".Following a limited release of their first single "Fill My Little World" in late 2005, the band entered the UK Singles Chart at #7 with their first full release "Sewn" in...

 for their second studio album, Join with Us

Join with Us

Join with Us is the second full-length studio album from guitar-based pop band The Feeling. It was released on 18 February 2008, preceded by the first single from the album, "I Thought It Was Over"....

. The song was released as the album's lead single

Lead single

A lead single is usually the first single released by a musician or a band before the release of its home album.During the era of the grammophone record, all music arrived in the marketplace as what is now termed a single, one potential hit song backed by an additional song of generally less...

 on 13 February 2008 and peaked at number 9 in the UK Singles Chart

UK Singles Chart

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. According to the band's official website, the song is about a love affair taking place around the time of the fall of the Berlin Wall

Berlin Wall

The Berlin Wall was a barrier constructed by the German Democratic Republic starting on 13 August 1961, that completely cut off West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin...

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The song's music video

Music video

A music video or song video is a short film integrating a song and imagery, produced for promotional or artistic purposes. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a marketing device intended to promote the sale of music recordings...

 premiered on Channel 4

Channel 4

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 on 22 December 2007. The video features the band in a dilapidated building, where, according to drummer

Drummer

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, Paul Stewart

Paul Stewart (musician)

Paul Ronald Stewart is the drummer in the British band The Feeling.He went to St Wilfrid's Catholic School, Crawley, where he met Kevin Jeremiah and Ciaran Jeremiah, now fellow members of The Feeling....

, "Things shake and electronics go weird, as if being visited by other-worldly beings."

Formats and track listing

CD single
(Released 11 February 2008)

1. "I Thought It Was Over" – 3:32
2. "Don't Make It Easy" – 2:55
3. "Colombia" – 4:06
4. "I Thought It Was Over" (official music video)

Coloured 7" vinyl
(Released 11 February 2008)

1. "I Thought It Was Over" – 3:32
2. "Colombia" – 4:06

Digital download
(Released 1 February 2008)

1. "I Thought It Was Over" (radio edit) – 3:32

Digital remixes EP
(Released 1 February 2008)

1. "I Thought It Was Over" (Tom Middleton
   Tom Middleton
   Tom Middleton is a prolific British recording artist, music producer, remixer and DJ.A classically trained pianist and cellist, Middleton worked in the early 1990s with Richard D. James , co-producing "En-Trance To Exit" on the Analogue Bubblebath EP for Exeter's influential Mighty Force Records...
   
    Vocal remix) – 7:30
2. "I Thought It Was Over" (Tom Middleton
   Tom Middleton
   Tom Middleton is a prolific British recording artist, music producer, remixer and DJ.A classically trained pianist and cellist, Middleton worked in the early 1990s with Richard D. James , co-producing "En-Trance To Exit" on the Analogue Bubblebath EP for Exeter's influential Mighty Force Records...
   
    Dub remix) – 8:08

Charts

Chart (2008)	Peak position
UK Singles Chart UK Singles Chart The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record-industry. The full chart contains the top selling 200 singles in the United Kingdom based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 ...	9
Irish Singles Chart Irish Singles Chart The Irish Singles Chart is Ireland's music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by the Irish Recorded Music Association and compiled on behalf of the IRMA by Chart-Track. Chart rankings are based on sales, which are compiled through over-the-counter retail data captured...	10
Austrian Singles Chart	67