Songfacts®:

• This is a track from Underwater Sunshine (Or What We Did On Our Summer Vacation), the sixth studio album by Counting Crows. The album is entirely composed of cover versions and Coby Brown, of Philadelphia indie rock band Thinking Machines, wrote this song. Brown has also collaborated with Counting Crows guitarist David Immerglück on his own projects.
• Frontman Adam Duritz told Billboard magazine that for seven months during the recording of the record, he suffered "horrific withdrawals" after kicking ineffective psychiatric medications doctors had prescribed to treat his mental disorder. "It was a long year last year," he admitted. "At one point I had the shakes really badly, and you can hear it on the song 'Hospital.' I'm just literally vibrating around the room trying to just stand still and I couldn't do it."