In December 2008, it would also be serviced to the Adult Alternative (or Triple A) radio format as the third airplay single this era, following up the chart-topping "Come Around".
[1] The track shares a lyric from the band's earlier single "Angels of the Silences", from which the song's title originates: "I dream of Michelangelo when I’m lying in my bed".
Which is why that line shows up later in "Angels of the Silences" because I still didn’t understand what "When I Dream of Michelangelo" was about; but I had that image.
I just hadn’t able to get the song out or understand what it was really about.Duritz explained the song's evolution more elaborately in a March 2008 interview with James Campion:[3] I had this idea of Michelangelo lying on his back painting the Creation: God reaching out to Adam, and in my mind not being able to quite reach God.
So the idea crops up in Angels of the Silences, but as I changed, experienced more, and understood what the song was going to be about; it became about the constant struggle of the artist to reach for something divine, to create something out of nothing, which is the original divine act; there was a void and let there be light, making something out of nothing.