A lot of the songs just start with riffs and melodies and the lyrics come last, but the lyrics came pretty quickly on this one." So we pulled it out and worked on it a little more. So it was shelved and it was our manager who came in and said, 'What happened to that 'Best Of You' song?'.
"'Best Of You' is funny because we demoed so many songs for 'In Your Honor', I'd kind of forgotten about 'Best Of You'. By leaving my perspective out of things it made it so general that other people decide their interpretation." But I kind of denied a lot of the political overtones because I didn't want to step on Green Day's toes or have people think we were a political band and I didn't want us to turn into Rage Against The Machine. We got a lot of questions when we first released the record because everybody thought the title was dedicated to John Kerry, and it was influenced by that, but it wasn't dedicated to John Kerry. It has a lot to do with feeling controlled by a government that you didn't elect.
"'No Way Back' is another song that I wrote right off the John Kerry campaign trail.
That song's kind of our signature sound and I was afraid that if we were to release that right off the bat then it was too safe and predictable." "I love that song and the record company wanted it be the first single, but to me it sounded too much like a Foo Fighters song. I'm trying to keep it general so people don't focus on one specific Ithing. It could be love, it could be football, it could be music, it could be anything. It's that overwhelming feeling of connection with something. People were getting together to make a difference, for the sake of something honourable. "The song itself was just inspired by going out on the campaign trail and experiencing such a strong sense of devotion and belief.
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