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"'Pill' was written in the fall of '01 when I was pretty fucking depressed, and right after I had made the decision to not finish my current prescription of anti-depressants. I'd been on three different kinds in three years, and they all made me numb, number, and numbest. They cut the highs and the lows out of human experience so you're kind of swimming in the middle and wondering where everything went. Originally it was a lot more hyperbolic (if that's even possible) and vague on the subject because it was my first attempt at writing a song from personal experience that was darker than something like, "Oh no this girl broke up with me and I'm really sad." Which is to say, it marked the beginning of my maturation as a lyricist, from where I was at about a 6th grade level, to now where I'm comfortably at an 8th grade level. I pride myself on that growth, because really it's all I have.
Since then it's taken on a life of its own. I recorded a demo version in the winter of '02 that really fleshed out the harmonies and overdubs that so far is the best thing I've ever done, which isn't saying much but still. I think the middle eight alone has two dozen tracks, going just on guitar and vocal overdubs alone. I rewrote the lyrics for Braintree to match the maturity in the lyrics I'm writing nowadays, and I think I managed to bridge the gap between being 17 and being 21, which again isn't much but still. To this day it's the song people ask about the most, and it's even been covered a few times."
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