Songfacts®:

• Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy has battled a painkiller addiction, which he hints at in the lyrics, "I kill my memory with a cheap disease." Asked about the line by Rolling Stone, Tweedy replied: "A lot of 'Sunloathe' is mocking the internally manufactured abyss of addiction. It's a common thread in a lot of my songs - being angry at my own self-pity, or self-pity in general, in the face of the real suffering in the world."
• The song's animated music video follows four misunderstood monsters on a journey to reunite. The clip was directed by theater and film director Peter Glantz , who started off as Roger Corman's assistant. Amongst the other works on his resume is the 2003 music documentary Lightning Bolt - Power Of Salad. The trippy art is by Nathaniel Murphy, who previously provided several illustrations for the liner booklet of 2007's Sky Blue Sky.