Just What to Say

Album: Crooked Shadows (2017)
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Songfacts®:

  • Dashboard Confessional frontman Chris Carrabba considers this the most personally revealing (or should we say, confessional) song he's ever written. He explained to Cleveland Scene that it's his "admission that no one is perfect, and although I did my best, I will fail."
  • Against The Current vocalist Chrissy Costanza guests on the song. Carabba said that Costanza really got the song's message, "and it shows in her voice and the range of her harmony."
  • The song's music video was filmed in a single continuous tracking shot. It starts by following Chris Carrabba around his house as he struggles to come up with song ideas before hitting us with an apocalyptic twist.

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