word for word.. this is it..."This song is about how you go from being the most important person in someone's life one day to being utterly meaningless on another day. That's the weirdest thing about splitting up with people: It's not that you love each other but you can't deal with being together; it's like, how do you go from being the person they made love to, to this sterile position outside of that? I tried to write about the perils of actually caring for other people, because they come and they go, and that leaves you with yet another new hole. Specifically, it's about an ex-girlfriend who got pregnant when we slept together long after we had broken up. She got pregnant and we decided to keep it even though we were still split up. Later, she had a miscarriage, and the song examines our lives in the wake of that." Why did you include a solo trumpet on this track? "I got the idea from an Elvis Costello album called Punch The Clock. There's a song called 'Shipbuilding' on there, and he had Chet Baker play trumpet on it. It was this ghostly thing -- beautiful, sad. I wanted something like that, something that was like somebody crying. I couldn't think of any other instrument that did that as well. One of my house mates, Andre Carter, played the trumpet, which kills me."
word for word.. this is it..."This song is about how you go from being the most important person in someone's life one day to being utterly meaningless on another day. That's the weirdest thing about splitting up with people: It's not that you love each other but you can't deal with being together; it's like, how do you go from being the person they made love to, to this sterile position outside of that? I tried to write about the perils of actually caring for other people, because they come and they go, and that leaves you with yet another new hole. Specifically, it's about an ex-girlfriend who got pregnant when we slept together long after we had broken up. She got pregnant and we decided to keep it even though we were still split up. Later, she had a miscarriage, and the song examines our lives in the wake of that." Why did you include a solo trumpet on this track? "I got the idea from an Elvis Costello album called Punch The Clock. There's a song called 'Shipbuilding' on there, and he had Chet Baker play trumpet on it. It was this ghostly thing -- beautiful, sad. I wanted something like that, something that was like somebody crying. I couldn't think of any other instrument that did that as well. One of my house mates, Andre Carter, played the trumpet, which kills me."