Album: Elephants…Teeth Sinking Into Heart (2008)
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Songfacts®:

  • This song about a jerk contains some typically confessional lyrical content, including the line, "don't f--k me in front of me." Yamagata told Rolling Stone magazine: "I didn't censor anything. When I wrote that, I thought, 'I can name a lot of women who are gonna get that right off the bat.'"
  • This featured in the "Homeward Bound" episode of the medical drama television program Private Practice.

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