Album: Tidal Wave (2016)
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  • Vocalist Adam Lazzara explained the song's meaning to Radio.com:

    "With that one, I think it's kind of social commentary and looking at the world around you and just being confused by it. It's like, things shouldn't be this hard for me to understand right now. And I don't know about you but that's a lot of what my inner dialog is. This kind of manic - everything makes perfect sense - oh my God I don't understand anything. Oh my God, what am I doing with my life. Those kind of opposite feelings."
  • "Fences" appears on Tidal Wave (2016), Taking Back Sunday's seventh studio album. Their producer, Mike Sapone, reminded the band how U2 reinvented themselves for their own seventh album, Achtung Baby, which made Taking Back Sunday want to do the same.

    "Throughout the recording that was a reference point for us," guitarist/vocalist John Nolan told the Long Island Pulse of U2's album in 2017. "There were some others like INXS, Robert Palmer and The Cure. All stuff that isn't necessarily obvious when you listen to Tidal Wave but on some level did influence it."

    Taking Back Sunday are no strangers to reinvention. The band, who inadvertently established themselves as poster children for the mid-2000s emo movement with their influential Tell All Your Friends (2002), made an intentional shift towards explosive arena rock with the aptly titled Louder Now (2006), which boasted the hit "MakeDamnSure."

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