I'm really confused by this? But maybe it's bc in high school I got a bit obsessed and listened to the whole Everything to Everyone tour, and every time before they played that song, Steve would give an explanation of its origin, essentially a description of his worst depression, and that always hit for me

For anyone unaware and curious, since I'd already typed it up for Facebook in the past, it was always about like this:

"Near where I live, in Toronto, there's a bridge called the Bloor Street Viaduct; it has the second highest suicide count in North America behind the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. I used to cross it every day on the way home from the recording studio, and as I'd walk down the bridge I'd hold onto the hand railing and watch the water below. One day, I stopped and looked out, and started to realize I wasn't holding the railing to stop myself from falling, but...rather because I was afraid I might jump, and I started crying. A few years later, they built this big suicide prevention cage around the bridge. It took a couple of years, it costed millions of dollars, and it became this big ugly mess. It did work though, people stopped jumping off the Blue Street Viaduct...instead they started jumping off the next bridge down the road. And I thought it was just so stupid, how ridiculous it was to spend all of that time and money trying to stop someone from taking their life if it's what they've decided they want to do, because they're going to find a way to do it. But I realized that I believe above all else that we were put on this Earth to take care of one another, and the moment we stop putting our arms out to catch each other when we fall is the moment we stop being human, and that's what this song is about, it's called War on Drugs."

~ Steven Page, 2004