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Released: August 20th, 2005

Re-released: September 4th, 2020

Written & produced by: Frances Quinlan

Background

In an interview with Dominic Angelella, Quinlan explained that the track was recorded with a handheld recorder. The recording was of them and a close friend walking over train tracks, with the crackling sound being caused by the stones on the tracks.

The track was included to instill the sense of time passing in the listener.

"[...] I wanted to feign experience. I wanted to feign this sense of time passing even though a lot hadn't happened. When I recorded Freshman Year I was 19. I hadn't been through much, so I was trying to create this sense of time passing and I think field recordings do tend to lift you up and place you... field recordings, I think, immediately trigger a sense of memory."

The track also was influenced by Vollmar's album 13 Or So People Who Need Chances, as Quinlan found the sound to be meditative, like rain.

Lyrics

[Tree branches being broken]

[Inaudible conversation]