Kevin Devine, fellow front-man of Bad Books was asked in a Huffington Post interview the story behind this song, to which he replied:
"That was one of Andy's, and that's one of our pretty big rock songs that get pretty raucous and are a lot of fun to play. It has a really sweet chorus of his that I really like, kind of oscillating between "it's good to be alone" and "I hate to be alone" and "I need to be alone." It's very simple, but I know I feel that way sometimes -- I want to be around people but I don't. I think that all of us kind of need to be alone at some point to figure out why we want to have people in our life and what those relationships are about. I tend to be a bit more verbose than Andy. We both talk a lot, but I tend to write with a lot more words. He's got an economy of language that I really like, and this song is really illustrative of that too."
Kevin Devine, fellow front-man of Bad Books was asked in a Huffington Post interview the story behind this song, to which he replied:
"That was one of Andy's, and that's one of our pretty big rock songs that get pretty raucous and are a lot of fun to play. It has a really sweet chorus of his that I really like, kind of oscillating between "it's good to be alone" and "I hate to be alone" and "I need to be alone." It's very simple, but I know I feel that way sometimes -- I want to be around people but I don't. I think that all of us kind of need to be alone at some point to figure out why we want to have people in our life and what those relationships are about. I tend to be a bit more verbose than Andy. We both talk a lot, but I tend to write with a lot more words. He's got an economy of language that I really like, and this song is really illustrative of that too."