Songfacts®:

• This song is about being in love with someone who seemingly does not love you back. Years and years pass, until you are ultimately forced to get over them. Then, one day, out of the blue, that person you once loved finally crawls back to you, but by then you consider them "overdue." Pryor says it's one of his favorite songs.
• The Get Up Kids' front man, Matt Pryor, told MTV that the song was inspired by his relationship with his father: "It's about my dad. I know there's no way to say that and be slick about it, but I try not to be incredibly obvious in interviews, just in case whomever the song is about reads the interview." Pryor added: "I wrote the music and was just singing along and that first line was the first thing I came up with. And when I started writing the lyrics, it all came out really fast because it's about things that I think about sometimes - especially now as a parent myself. If I'm going to learn anything from my parents, it's going to be what not to do."
• The animated video for "Overdue" was directed by Travis Millard. Milliard also designed the album artwork for On a Wire, on which "Overdue" features. Pryor told MTV: "We have a tendency to give Travis a free rein on what he does... I'm never disappointed in Travis' stuff."