TRIVIA:

- Kristin says this is her favorite of the songs on Learn To Sing Like A Star.

 

WORDS FROM KRISTIN:

- "It's a song about getting poor and having to wear day glo clothes but still sink in to the background. I didn't know why I wrote it. I thought I was writing about the weekend Billy and I were engaged, it was in Santa Barbara, we were living in LA. He dragged me up for this weekend in Santa Barbara and didn't tell me why (and that was why). I'm a tomboy, I didn't get any of it! And on the way back we pulled off in to Paradise Cove, this beach in Southern California, it's where the end of Planet of the Apes takes place...the Statue of Liberty. Um, and jumped in to the ocean, it's fucking freezing - I have this water thing, I always have to be in the water - crazy waves, even the surfers wouldn't touch these waves, and I was immediately just sucked out to sea. And I thought I was too strong for that... Billy tried to grab me, he said it was like a dead body, I couldn't fight the current at all. I thought that I was writing about that and then all this water stuff happened to us and our house flooded...And you know, our friends in Katrina and everything, water water water. But I couldn't figure out why I'd be talking about getting poor and day glo clothes and still being in the background and then it happened and we had to buy everything for the kids at Goodwill and it was all these ridiculous day glo colours and we were these invisible people, just like all the other poor people. It's a good lesson to learn, not that I'd ever been really rich, but I'd never had to...I'd never had nothing at all before, and I appreciate "Day Glo" for being there before it happened and being the scrim that I saw all that through. It made it, I want to say almost meaningless? It didn't seem to matter so much. "Day Glo" had already made it pretty, so it was okay to live that way."