Backseat

An excerpt from a now deleted blog post from Juliana on her official site in 2008:

This song — especially the bridge — is trying so hard to be hopeful. It wants to be happy. But it doesn’t know how, yet. But it has tons of faith. It’s trying to believe that I/we am/are not as alone as I/we think I/we am/are and that I/we am/are stronger than I/we thought I/we was/were. It’s about not giving up; about picking yourself up from a low place and keeping going because what’s unknown, up ahead, could be great, and better than where we are now.

In the bridge, Todd, the drummer, thought that he was hitting the cymbal on the one and the three, but his counting was screwed up in his head and he was accidentally and unknowingly hitting on the two and the four, making a syncopated beat, until the full drums came back in. Todd’s mistake sounded cool to me. I liked it and didn’t ask him to re-do it; to do it “right.” It was a case of: Sometimes wrong is right.