Broadway

This was written by Goo leader John Rzeznik about the neighborhood where he grew up, a "blue-collar, working class" type of place as he called it. In an interview, he stated that it had a church and a bar on every corner, hence the lyrics, "You pray to statues when you sober up for fun." "There was a strange darkness to the place but also a lot of good," he explained in American Songwriter's Behind The Mic series. "I didn't write it until I had some time away from the people I grew up with. It was a tough place to grow up. It was a neighborhood full of tough guys and I was not a tough guy."

The Broadway in this song is the one in Buffalo, NY, not in New York City.

Rzeznik sings of a "young man sitting in the old man's bar, waiting for his turn to die." In a 1998 interview, he explained the significance of the lyric: "When I was young, my dad used to take me down to the local bar, prop me up on the barstool, order a drink for himself, and a soda and chips for me. He'd give me a quarter for the pinball machine and sit there and drink. I'd look around and see all these kids who just turned 18, and they were hanging out there, sitting in the same chairs as their fathers. When they were old enough to drink with their dads, they took his place at the bar, carrying on the tradition. I decided I didn't want to be like that."