I was messing around with my dobro the other night and came up with the main riff for this song. I knew I'd forget it (I always do) so I went down right away and recorded a rough take of just the riff. The next night I spent some more time on the song, but couldn't record with complete silence behind me, so I recorded a scratch guitar and vocal part with my wife's sewing machine running in the background along with some other ambient 'life' sounds.
I had planned to re-record another cleaner version but thought it might be cool and maybe very organic to leave it as is, and maybe take the whole lo-fi concept it a little further and add some other stuff. I added a talking Jesus doll, a girl discussing the skills of breaking up, a dog barking (I couldn't get mine to), and some radio static.
The lyrics were improvised and intended as filler until I wrote something else, but strangly reading them now they make sense to me.
By the way, this and a few of my other previous posts - kind of blues, folk and country influenced indie rock songs - are part of a new project I'm working on I'm calling Blind Dog Sky. I think this will make a good intro or segue on the record.