This song came together as quickly as anything I've ever written. I won't say how much time, because I don't want to set myself up for any fairly obvious jokes... :) But suffice it so say that, to some extent, I was channeling my inner Oasis <---I read an interview once where one of the Gallagher's was saying they write whatever words come to mind.

I started with the chorus, and initially, I was just mumbling some stuff and trying to fit syllables to the melody that I was working with. However, I soon found myself with some very cohesive ideas and everything took shape very quickly after that. It was exciting for me as I definitely have pieces of other songs that I have been playing with for months if not years and can't seem to gain much traction.

Ultimately, and I assume this is also fairly obvious, I see this as a critique of not only certain western ideologies, but also some of the more disgusting/saddening western cultural realities. One could perhaps argue that culture is simply a manifestation of ideology, but I've not hammered out how exactly I think all that works...