“When I wrote that song I had just gone through a breakup so I had some inspiration,” Leahy told Alternative Addiction. “It wasn’t really even a song I was writing for the record, I just felt like it had to be written.”
Oddly enough, the song was actually written originally as a love song about the same person prior to the band leaving for tour.
“I had written kind of the bones of the track before we left for tour, and that was prior to the break up,” explained Leahy. “The lyric in the song was actually, ‘the sun don’t shine when you are not around,’ and then after we got back from the tour [and had the breakup] I changed some of the lyrics around and added ‘thanks for nothing’ on the end of it. It’s sort of funny how the song completely did a 180 as far as what it meant.”
The song was recorded in NY with producer Adam Richman, whom the band worked with on half of the album’s tracks. The band’s major label debut, titled Let's Be Animals is available staring April 26th."
Source: Alternative Addiction.