[citation needed] He claimed that friends constantly ask him to write songs about a friend or child but that he felt that he had written plenty of name-oriented songs (Wreck Your Life's Victoria, Drag It Up's Adelaide).

However, he thought his friend's daughter had a great name (Marina) and wrote a song about her.

[2] Miller came up with the verse first, then built the rest on his father-in-law's request for more of a story (who specifically inspired "we met on a friday night I'll never forget").

Miller agonized over a lyric that originally went: "Oh in the future please include me in your schemes/until then all I can say is sweet dreams".

His desire for a "twist" eventually led to the 11th-hour replacement of the lyric while in the studio with the final lyric "Although it's nothing/nothing's what it seems/but for now all I can say is sweet dreams", which he felt was "obtuse but evocative, and filled with that magical hopelessness that has informed and inspired almost all of the love songs I've written over the last quarter century."