Radio.com: There's a lot of conflicting accounts online to what you've said the song's about. If I list them, can you tell me if they're true or false? Brian Vander Ark: Sure, whatever you like.

One Verve Pipe fan site says it was inspired by a conversation you heard at a party? Yeah. How much of that made into the song? What was that about?

Well, it was a combination of a lot of different things. When I'm writing something, usually the initial burst of creativity could come from anywhere. Whether that be at a party or talking in a conversation with someone could be a particular part of that song�it's really just a matter of me carrying a notebook around and writing little things here and there-which is what I do, I still do that today. Whether it makes it into a song or not, it all depends if the song comes together melodically and if I feel like it's valid. I wrote the song back in 1988, whatever I heard that sparked the initial�that particular moment could've been the first few lines. It's hard to tell.

The actual story is that I went out with a girl and my buddy went out with the girl, and we passed her back and forth. And then he got her pregnant and she ended up committing suicide. But she didn't commit suicide, [that was] poetic license to make it sound more dramatic. I mean, little bits and pieces come from everywhere. "She was touching her face" was me watching�I had the television on while I was writing the song and the Divinyls song "I Touch Myself" comes on. She was touching her face, I'll put that in there, that sounds interesting. It's not like I sit down and write a story all in one sitting. The lyrics for that were written in my car driving from job to job, gig to gig, while stringing tennis racquets in a sporting goods store.

Around when did you tell the press that it was about an actual ex-girlfriend's suicide? Or did that not happen? Yeah, I don't know. The person it was written about did not commit suicide, so that was fabricated. So whether I said that or not, I don't know.