AndrewMcMahon

Send me a tweet to @amslingshots when this chat is done and I'll work on it

It's funny how the words we never say, can turn into the only thoughts we know

Most things I worry about, never happen anyway TP

Truthfully, because it's so long. I don't ever play it in sets where I'm not headlining because it would take up half my stage time. I do love the song though and have enjoyed being able to bring it out recently on headlining shows

It started as a dream I woke up from in the middle of the night. That piano melody was in my head. I wrote the first two verses basically half asleep at four in the morning. I finished the first half the next day and then spent a month in the shitty little rehearsal room in glendale with no AC in the middle of the summer figuring out how to finish it. That room was so hot and it felt like a cave and thats where the title came from. I never turned the lights on so it would stay as cool as possible so I wrote the entire second half of the song in the dark, sweating.

1. I look back on transit a lot and truthfully have never felt it was under-appreciated. I love the cult status the album took on. I do think warner dropped the ball in a major way deciding not to work Dark Blue as a single after we completed the video, but thats all water under the bridge.
2. As far as inspiration for new songs, I look in the same places I always have. The demons of the day. The big questions that still come up about life and where I fit in the world. Those questions don't go away and so the songs stil come.
3. Nate and I have definitely spoken about this. I was onto Jack's a good couple years before fun. began and both he and Jack reached out to me on more than a couple of occasions to discuss what the transition was like for me. Out of these conversations came the first fun tour when they opened for Jack's acoustic during the glass passenger era. I have so much respect for what those dudes have accomplished
4. Wildflowers by Tom Petty, August and Everything After by the Counting Crows and Weezer's Blue album. More recently Circuital by My Morning Jacket, or Continuum By John Mayer