Musically I wanted to write something catchy, inherently simple, and that reminded me of being in a roller rink in 1985 (complete with 8 bit laser beam/ bomb drop sounds).

Lyrically, I have a hard time writing about dancing, shaking your ass, or robots, or freakazoids or whatever people were writing about back then so I had to go another direction.

So, I went with the old standby, the ups and downs of relationships. The frustration of not knowing what someone wants from you and being pushed to a breaking point as a result.

On/Off/On is kind of a dark song, but it does have those super cool tom overdubs in the verses that remind me of "Burning Down the House", and that makes me smile every time.