(2) Your songs tend to deal with personal / emotional issues, would you broach a specific issue if you feel strongly enough about a subject?

Chris: Yes, that's the main reason I write stuff: there's something I feel so strongly about that I can't stand to let it just knock around inside of my head. I've got to tell someone, try to show people the shit that we put ourselves and other people through, and songs reach the largest possible number we can get to now. It's just a form of communication, a way of trying to make people see things from other perspectives, or to re-affirm one they might already have, showing that there are other people who feel the same way.

Blake: What he said, and this: I think there's a certain safety in deliberate lyrical abstraction (of which I'm entirely guilty) but there's also a lot to be said for it. I'd say the most consistent topic in this band has been total estrangement, and what might follow from massive disenchantment and emotional damage. Sometimes they're melodramatic or really distant, obscure scenarios, but, damnit, we're still kind of young, and we're entitled to our melodrama. The three of us, we're bleeding sores. We don't get over anything. We're too sensitive, it's like fucking Twenty-Something, you know? Anyway, I've broached a lot of painfully specific issues as of late, I guess I'm getting a little wary of public sobbing, but it will always be a pretty personal account of whatever that issue is -- no one can speak beyond themself, I'm sorry, but that's when you get into crypto-fascist straight-edge and bullshit like that. Anyone who tells me they got a 'solution' I run from. Flat out -- me, running down the street. Nice thought.