Songfacts®:

• This song was co-written by front-men Steve Page and Ed Robertson. Robertson had written the song following the success of the album Stunt, after seeing that people in their native Canada were unaware of the band's success. The lyrics themselves describe a situation where things are going pretty well in your life, and you feel fine, but you know that things could be better.
• The guitar riff throughout the verses were based on the song "Leaving Las Vegas" by Sheryl Crow.
• This song is one of the many that the band often change the lyrics to during live performances for comedic effect. Lyrics that are often changed include "And run through with my gym short on" replaced with "no clothing on," "And change in to drier clothes" to "changing to my sister's clothes." When they were on tour with Alanis Morissette, the line was often changed to "change into Alanis' clothes."
• In the third verse there is a classic schoolyard joke: "I could hide out under there - I just made you say underwear." This caused a fan trend of throwing underwear on stage during live performances. When this happens, Robertson changes the line to "I just made you throw underwear." >>

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• Robertson came up with the concept for the Philip Harder-directed music video, where he plays a fast food worker who daydreams an exciting life with restaurant patrons dancing all around him. One customer is played by Will & Grace actor Eric McCormack, a friend of the band who did the cameo free of charge. The story hit close to home for Robertson, who really did work at a Wendy's back in the '80s.