Songfacts®:

• Bareilles revealed to Rolling Stone magazine issue 1049 that she found the recording of the album to be an emotional experience and that she was a "basket case" in the studio. The singer-songwriter added: "I remember we were recording the song 'City,' and it was really run-of-the-mill to me in my head, and I just burst into tears. I just didn't want it to be just a pretty recording, and the engineer was like, okay, let's try a Massive Attack version of it. So we went the other extreme, where it was really sparse and industrial, and that wasn't it either. And then we finally got to the middle ground, which is what it ended up being - it ended up working out. But for me, the process of going from one extreme to other was so traumatic, it felt like life or death right there, and I cried to Chris Chaney the bass player out in the lobby."