I made the rift to this song about 2 weeks before the lyrics. Like most songs, I just open my mouth and words fill in the gaps, but at this time in my life (Late September 2001), I was listening to a lot of Counting Crows, and they use the name Maria often, so I believe that that's what happened there.

The beginning again talks about about my faith, but is more fictional than anything. The chorus is a ball of irony, truth, lies, and twists. I really liked this song when I first wrote it, and it was for a long time my favourite.

The second verse was taken from a previous poem I wrote, and modified. It's about how I often feel that I'm being wasteful, and wasted. Time goes by, and what are we really achieving?

The last verse was just an other sad twist to most things I write. All and all, I'm still proud of this one.