Cass McCombs: That song was written to express how you're not going to like everyone in this world. Everyone wants to be well-loved and appreciated but, at the same time, there are some people that just don't want to be your friend, and there's nothing you can do or say to change that. So it's about ushering them into the elevated status of enemy-- its kind of an honor to be someone's enemy. It sounds regal. If it's possible to have an enemy without making it personal or moral, then that's what I'm trying to do. I've been reading a lot of the Tao [Te Ching], and that's where this idea of the equilibrium of relationships came from. People take things a little too personal. I write these songs, and they're experiments with thoughts. That's it. I'm not a teacher.
Cass McCombs: That song was written to express how you're not going to like everyone in this world. Everyone wants to be well-loved and appreciated but, at the same time, there are some people that just don't want to be your friend, and there's nothing you can do or say to change that. So it's about ushering them into the elevated status of enemy-- its kind of an honor to be someone's enemy. It sounds regal. If it's possible to have an enemy without making it personal or moral, then that's what I'm trying to do. I've been reading a lot of the Tao [Te Ching], and that's where this idea of the equilibrium of relationships came from. People take things a little too personal. I write these songs, and they're experiments with thoughts. That's it. I'm not a teacher.
From an interview he did for Pitchfork.com