The EP would go through years of delays for a multitude of reasons, including extensive touring, prioritizing the completion of their third studio album Out of the Vein, and complications arising from parting ways with Elektra in 2004.
[1] However, Elektra, the band's record label, did not approve of the song's lyrical content about a student who shoots a teacher's son, with the Columbine High School massacre having just occurred the same year.
[4] However, in 2000, frontman Stephan Jenkins fell into a state of depression, which led him to recluse himself into a productive period of writing, resulting in over 40 new songs.
[7] Drummer Brad Hargreaves, in late 2004, indicated that the EP had become tied up with difficulties with their record label, with Elektra dropping the band after the low sales of Out of the Vein.
The full-lyrics version of "Slow Motion" finally found a vehicle for its official release in the band's 2006 greatest hits album A Collection.
No versions of "Star Wars" or "Swimming" have ever been released or leaked, although the latter was temporarily listed as a potential track for Ursa Major.