The Room (song)

"The Room"
Single by The Twilight Sad
from the album Forget the Night Ahead
B-side	"The Neighbours Can't Breathe" (Acoustic)
Released	5 April 2010
Recorded	Chem19 Studios
Genre	Indie rock, shoegazing
Length	4:17 (radio edit) 4:35 (album version)
Label	Fat Cat (FAT74)
Songwriter(s)	James Graham, Andy MacFarlane
Producer(s)	Andy MacFarlane
The Twilight Sad singles chronology
"Seven Years of Letters" (2009) "The Room" (2010) "Sick" (2011)

"The Room" is a song by Scottish indie rock band The Twilight Sad. The song was released as the third single from the band's second studio album, Forget the Night Ahead. It was released on 5 April 2010 on Fat Cat Records.^[1] The song features violin by Laura McFarlane, of fellow Scottish band My Latest Novel,^[2] and was the first song to be written for the record.^[3]

"The Room" was first released as an acoustic version, under the title "Untitled #27", on the band's 2008 compilation album Killed My Parents and Hit the Road. The title of the song was inspired by the 1971 Hubert Selby Jr. novel, The Room.^[4]

The B-side of the single is an acoustic version of "The Neighbours Can't Breathe", a song also featured on Forget the Night Ahead.