I caught a star though

WORDS FROM KRISTIN:

- "I can make it through the 'atomic theory...don't leave me when the train comes' verse, but after 'pack the jury full of water' I'm lost."

- "This song was written on what came to be known by my band as "mouse day," because our apartment was infested with mice, like many apartments, but they all let themselves be known on this one day, for some reason. My drummer had been sleeping on a chair that I told him was a bed because it would kind of collapse and you could lie down on it, and he said that it had been squeaking when he went to bed but he thought it was just and idiosyncratic collapsing chair-bed, not a family of mice... Until they bit him on the ass. Like most things you ignore. And on this very same day, my bass player and my sister were home making toast. None of us were there except them, they stayed home that day to make toast, and when their toast popped up, so did a little singed mouse. Sad for the mouse, sad for them, sad for everyone... The mouse wasn't dead. It was just a little browned. And what they did next I have never heard an adequate explanation for; they took a can of hair spray, Final Net, and sprayed the whole thing on this little mouse while it just kind of stood there, blinking at them. And even that didn't kill it. And it must have taken a long time, a whole can of hair spray, that, like, usually lasts ladies months, right? But it lasted this mouse maybe five minutes of just blinking, and he walked away all sticky and brown. There is no moral. But that's the day that I wrote this song. And it's not about mice."