This was the first song we ever wrote on the second time we got together to play. John had already dismissed second guitarist D Bryant (Something, Citizen D), which was a bit of a scandal at the time. This song immediately threw our initial idea of being a punk band out the window and set the basic formula of John pre-writing music and me coming in with a notebook full of lyrics. We'd usually "jam" on a riff until it came together, which generally took about half an hour (which is probably obvious). Any longer than that and the song got scrapped. I remember writing the lyrics in one of the computer labs under the DLU library in an attempt to write more like Polvo, but I don't think they were ever this "sentimental" or "la-la" or whatever. I always liked John's backing vocals at the end. I’d forgotten about that double ending. That was mine and Gray’s idea of something funny at the time.  I remember someone (maybe C Carter) saying that this was our "signature song." Ok.