Gerard: Sometimes it feels like jail when you’ve got eight or nine guys in a van. It smells like jail; that’s for sure. Sometimes it feels like a prison, but sometimes even the guys in prison, as fucked up and rough as it is, they buddy up and stick through it together. I think that’s definitely one of the reasons I wanted Bert to sing on it, because he’s one of the few people that I’ve met on the road and really connected with. He was like a cellmate, in a way. He’s already been through the crazy rock-star shit, and I’m just new to this. [The song is] definitely about that camaraderie, and obviously touches on lost masculinity. I think that just comes from being around dudes so much and you actually start to lose your masculinity. Especially because we’re not the kind of band like Mötley Crüe, where we fuck around with groupies or anything. In that respect, we’re very monk-like, in a way. But the song’s pretty homoerotic.

Gerard: Definitely. There’s straight-up lines about going down by myself or going down with my friends.

Gerard: I also wanted, at the same time, [for] the record to be a testament to self-expression, and putting stuff in there like that, while not being a homosexual myself, but expressing myself in a homosexual way, is either going to push your buttons in a negative way or you’re going to identify with it.