“It’s a strange song for me because I wrote the chorus in Los Angeles. I was killing time, my girlfriend was getting ready for lunch and she was taking a long time, so I was playing guitar and I came up with the chorus. I didn’t have lyrics, all I had was the “I did behave” part, but I remember we got halfway to lunch and I was singing it, and I was like, “Give me your phone.” I recorded a voice-note because the hook was in my head, which was very exciting. We’re not big, bombastic vocalists; coming up with repetitive vocal melodies is our thing. So when something sticks in your head, it’s like, stop the presses, you gotta get that down. I remember standing in the back alley in Echo Park singing the hook into her phone, and I was like, “Oh my God, either we have to go home or I have to keep this familiar.” I didn’t get a chance to record the song while I was in L.A., so I flew back to Vancouver and just would listen to the voice-note over and over. I then wrote the rest of the song around that voice-note. It’s a very unconventional way to write — I’d never done it before — but it actually started this thing for me where I would just work on one section and then build the song around it. I used to get a section going and then have to force myself to finish it. I think about all the songs that maybe got thrown away because I just became frustrated and couldn’t finish them.” - Tegan in 2016