In this song, Yellowcard frontman Ryan Key is fed up and ready to leave. Where's he going? "Way away away from here." The song speaks to the idea that we are ultimately the masters of our destiny, and we need to own up to what we do with our lives. Key cites his personal journey from dropping out of college to pursue his dream of being a songwriter, and the band's decision to leave their hometown of Jacksonville for California, as inspiration for the song. "It's like, I'm not going to stay here just because you tell me I have to," he said. "A lot of those people who say that are doing the 9-to-5 and they're not happy. You have to do what you want to do."
Ben Harper, who was the band's guitarist at the time, says the song is also "about our band and facing the people who didn't believe in what we were doing. That's kind of like an ode to disbelievers." (This not the Ben Harper of "Steal My Kisses" fame.) "It's the story we have sort of been through as a band in the last couple of years," Ryan Key added. "Hopefully other people will take that song and apply it to their own lives and be able to kind of get out of whatever they are stuck in and don't want to be in."
Directed by Patrick Hoelck, who helmed Alicia Keys' "Girlfriend," the music video shows the band performing in front of the Super A Foods supermarket in Los Angeles, California.
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