On the back of every right, there's a wrong looming. - Brandon Boyd

Too bad the things that make you mad are my favorite things.

I was in a bookstore, browsing through an old Life magazine, when I saw a picture of what the article called spontaneous human combustion. There were an old guy's legs and shoes, perfectly intact...then, right around his knee area, was just a pile of charred ashes. I was going through some turmoil in my life, both good and bad, and the image struck a chord, so...I wrote a song about it.

Life's a match in a gas tank. Don't ever mourn the ebbing tide.