Chris says in the insert of the "Ups and Downs" CD..."The story behind this song from our demo is funny. Before he joined Saves the Day in 1998, David Soloway has been in Sefler when I was a Sophmore and he was a Junior at our high school in Princeton, NJ. David had a girlfriend who was a Senior at Hopewll Valley High. When she graduated and left for college, David quit the band so that he could drive to upstate New York on weekends to spend time with her, rather than having to play shows, practice in a dingy basement, and drive the rest of us around town (he was the only one with a driver's license). I was furious at the time and I wrote this song about David picking a girl over our band. You should understand though that my bandmates and I were the outcasts at school and we really only had each other as friends, and when David left, there was one less person in our posse to protect us from being scorned at school. So, being sixteen and not having a proper sense of priority and lacking an awareness of reality, I was pissed and here's the song that came out because of it."
Chris says in the insert of the "Ups and Downs" CD..."The story behind this song from our demo is funny. Before he joined Saves the Day in 1998, David Soloway has been in Sefler when I was a Sophmore and he was a Junior at our high school in Princeton, NJ. David had a girlfriend who was a Senior at Hopewll Valley High. When she graduated and left for college, David quit the band so that he could drive to upstate New York on weekends to spend time with her, rather than having to play shows, practice in a dingy basement, and drive the rest of us around town (he was the only one with a driver's license). I was furious at the time and I wrote this song about David picking a girl over our band. You should understand though that my bandmates and I were the outcasts at school and we really only had each other as friends, and when David left, there was one less person in our posse to protect us from being scorned at school. So, being sixteen and not having a proper sense of priority and lacking an awareness of reality, I was pissed and here's the song that came out because of it."