the main inspiration for this song was a comment by billy corgan on the smashing pumpkins track 'daphne descends'. it's on the adore record, that is kind of like spacey, acousto-electric. folky songs done thru an electronica lens. he was talking about that song somewhere and referenced it being something you could sit on your front porch and play on an acoustic guitar (or something to that effect). when i came about this riff, that's exactly what it felt like. so my first thought was to take it to that adore, electronica place.

the main influence for the song itself is radiohead's "i might be wrong". i always loved the way that song was produced, how there was this noise that cut out as soon as thom started singing. this build up of the music...until you had something to say.

also, unbeknownst to me at the time, the opening lyric of this demo is straight up a U2 lyric - i was working at barnes and noble at the time and on one of the CD's we played was a cover of 'with or without you'. i accidentally borrowed that lyric (which was later changed once i caught it) for the opening line.

we were able to use much of my demo take here in the final song - we redid vocals and guitars, beefed up the drums, and added some more synth stuff.

the only thing i am remiss we didn't replicate are the "and i disappear" bits at the end.