The lead singer Jake, who wrote the song said "It's just about this rough time I had in my life and um, it was just before we wrote Perfect Distraction, and um, basically, I was doing bad stuff, you know like, swearing, drinking too much soda pop, cheating at Scrabble, that was probably my worst one.. And um, it wasn't untill the band said like, Jake, sort yourself out otherwise you're not going to be able to do a record,and yeh, Micky Finn is just like a metaphor for just saying goodbye to that old life style..."
The lead singer Jake, who wrote the song said "It's just about this rough time I had in my life and um, it was just before we wrote Perfect Distraction, and um, basically, I was doing bad stuff, you know like, swearing, drinking too much soda pop, cheating at Scrabble, that was probably my worst one.. And um, it wasn't untill the band said like, Jake, sort yourself out otherwise you're not going to be able to do a record,and yeh, Micky Finn is just like a metaphor for just saying goodbye to that old life style..."