This chorus was written before the London stage dive. I almost didn’t include it because I thought the lyrics became painfully ironic. We decided in the studio to embrace the irony and make it the subject matter of the song. I wanted to connect the album to my parents' generation by finding an iconic musician from the era to actually have a part on the album.

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I’ve been on depakote, lamotrigine and keppra to control my seizures. I don’t like being on the drugs, but I know they have an important purpose and have saved many lives

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The idea is that the pharmaceutical industry is creating bigger problems than the ones it’s trying to fix with some of the new medications it introduces. Bayer pharmaceutical invented heroin to cure opium addiction, and then methadone was later used to treat heroin addicts. If you bring in a tiger to catch mice you might get rid of the mice, but you have a worse problem on your hands.

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I’m generally a Gordo’s guy, but it didn’t fit the rhyme scheme

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Let there be no confusion. This means “you’re so Bay Area” i.e. San Francisco, San Jose, Oakland, Berkeley. This DOES NOT mean “Bae.” Period.

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I wasn’t always a vegetarian. Tekka maki was my favorite:

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When you’re a little kid growing up in San Francisco “hella” is considered a bad word so you say “hecka” instead

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If I ask people to pay for my music on iTunes, why should I pirate pornography??

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avid is a bit of an overstatement

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This is a Ted Haggard reference. He was an antigay evangelical pastor with the New Life Church in Colorado who was caught buying meth from a male prostitute and (possibly) having sex with him in 2006

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