I was playing it for [my best friend] and I was like, `I don`t know if I should even bring it to Rilo Kiley, I don`t know if it`s necessarily appropriate,` ... But she convinced me to do so. It`s just kind of a soulful, honest ballad.
I was kind of surprised after making the record, like, `Wow, there are a lot of god references here!` I didn`t realize I was thinking about that so much. There are a lot of cynical elements to these songs, and there`s sort of the expression of dissatisfac...
I originally recorded [the latter] for the solo record, and I wasn`t really confident with the way it turned out and I thought that the Kiley — as we refer to our band — would service it a lot better.