"This song, I've Been Dying to Reach You, is really old. It hasn't changed since the day we wrote it. Lyrically, I was away from my girlfriend at the time. She was calling me non-stop and it was annoying, trying to get in touch with me and she knew where I was and what I was doing. We were arguing all the time, and that was sort of in my head. That song sort of came out of, you know "Stop calling me so much" and maybe thinking about it from her perspective and being like, "Yeah, I'm kind of a shithead". I don't know where, like, "I watched her taking of her shoes" came from. It's fucking creepy. I don't know where "Dear sleeper, you couldn't find a better bed" came from. I don't even know where that shit came from, it just came out of me when I was singing it. It felt right, so it's as close as you can get. I was in John Feldman's kitchen writing it, and he was just like, "Yo, you gotta write lyrics to this. And we're going to record it, today." So I started to try and write lyrics. Even back then I never thought, "What does this mean for my whole life and this song", I would think like "What feels good to sing". And I would look back on it and go "Oh, wow, this does kind of cohesively go together. It makes some kind of sense". It's almost better having gotten to that point without some kind of force. I kind of let it happen and if it doesn't make any sense, I would kind of guide it into the right direction."
-Anthony Green (http://www.spin.com/articles/circa-survives-anthony-green-plays-solo-chats-inspiration)
"This song, I've Been Dying to Reach You, is really old. It hasn't changed since the day we wrote it. Lyrically, I was away from my girlfriend at the time. She was calling me non-stop and it was annoying, trying to get in touch with me and she knew where I was and what I was doing. We were arguing all the time, and that was sort of in my head. That song sort of came out of, you know "Stop calling me so much" and maybe thinking about it from her perspective and being like, "Yeah, I'm kind of a shithead". I don't know where, like, "I watched her taking of her shoes" came from. It's fucking creepy. I don't know where "Dear sleeper, you couldn't find a better bed" came from. I don't even know where that shit came from, it just came out of me when I was singing it. It felt right, so it's as close as you can get. I was in John Feldman's kitchen writing it, and he was just like, "Yo, you gotta write lyrics to this. And we're going to record it, today." So I started to try and write lyrics. Even back then I never thought, "What does this mean for my whole life and this song", I would think like "What feels good to sing". And I would look back on it and go "Oh, wow, this does kind of cohesively go together. It makes some kind of sense". It's almost better having gotten to that point without some kind of force. I kind of let it happen and if it doesn't make any sense, I would kind of guide it into the right direction." -Anthony Green (http://www.spin.com/articles/circa-survives-anthony-green-plays-solo-chats-inspiration)