I’ll talk s–t all day long but at the end of the day I don’t want to vote for anybody. If you’re not on Team Trump, you’re on Team Hillary and it’s such a ridiculous way to look at politics and to look at the way we’re voting. It comes down to the way our political parties work where it’s basically football teams. George Carlin would talk about politics and religion but in the same breath he’d also mention he doesn’t vote, doesn’t trust politicians or religion. It came out of this George Carlin quote, which was something we had talked about quite a bit within our circle of friends. “I think the lyric reflects the way a lot of us feel. Her growing up’s been a huge part of this record, and I think this song especially, some of that stuff just kind of seeped into the lyrics as I was writing.”Īsked by Billboard magazine about the line “I’m a rebel just for kicks now,” John Gourley explained it was inspired by Bernie Sanders: She was two and a half, three years old when we started working on this record. Over the course of this album, she’s obviously been growing up. He explained: “I have a little daughter named Francis. Think I’ll dust ’em off, put ’em back up on the shelf
As I’m doing it, he’s like, ‘Yeah, you got another part in there, you got like a bridge for me?’ I was like, ‘Yeah, sure I got this line.’
Our friend Asa Taccone was back there hanging out, and he heard something in that, so he had me track this bass line. I picked up this bass and started playing this bass line. Includes the great line “We could fight a war for peace”īackstory: Vocalist John Gourley told this story of writing the song:
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