John Darnielle before playing this song at the Bowery Ballroom in New York, NY on March 28, 2011:

“It’s a song you may find yourself singing if all hope is gone. And you’re like, ‘Oh, man, this sucks that all hope is gone. I liked it better when there was hope. Guess it’s too late to really be worrying about that now, though, and that’s what the whole meaning of the word gone is, isn’t it.’ And maybe you look it up in a dictionary, but there’s just a picture of your motel under that. And you think, ‘That’s really fucked up.’ It’s like a movie, and you start looking around for cameras — there’s no cameras.”