Q: What inspired "the road"? It's surreal but it still feels like it's grounded in something.
A: during 2009 and 2010 especially, i was doing this thing where i would write songs on paper only, with no instrument. Just start at the beginning and see where it goes. i wrote a lot of songs that way. i guess you could call it 'chain writing', or 'train writing', because the whole thing is written in order. And it's all done on the chart, on paper. Then around 2011 i got envious of more 'normal' songs, so i finally learned how to be organized enough to work on songs at an instrument, find a chorus first maybe, learn how to write what's before the chorus, you know, normal stuff. So i did a lot of that during 2011. Near the beginning of 2012, however, there was a day where i fondly remembered the joy of 'chain writing' so i did some of those. and 'the road' is one of them. So it is likely that the contents of the song somehow reflects the context of that situation