I wanted this song to have a "Great Romances Of The 20th Century" feel to it when I started writing. The "I'd been dead for a while" relates to my adversity to other human life forms after a horrible relationship that is dealt with in another song.
This is in reference to how I had liked Amy since 8th grade, but it had died down a bit in the two years I hadn't seen her. Then all of a sudden, I hear she likes me, and WHAM BAM my feelings were back.
There are SO many songs about best friends fucking with you like "Seventy Times 7" by Brand New and "There's No 'I' In Team" by Taking Back Sunday, but no matter what, I couldn't find a song that captured how I was feeling towards my friend. So I banged a lot on my piano in frustration. The only comfort I had was Amy.
My friend, when writing a journal entry online about Amy or I, would never write our names. Amy was SP as in Said Person because my friend wrote a lot in reference to Amy, and I became reduced from Matt to The Friend.
(you did all these things i hated)
I created an online journal filled with letters I wrote to my friend and didn't wanna send. There were other letters in there too, but the majority were to my friend. The last to lines are in reference to Silverstein songs. The knife in the back is a reference to "Smashed Into Pieces" and 'you did all these things I hated' is directly from "Hear Me Out."
The breakdown to this song was taken directly from a letter I wrote to my friend. No changes in words. Just the exact thing.
