Zac: "Man From Milwaukee" we started that song, our car broke down in Albuquerque, NM and as we were sitting outside the hotel we started writing that song. And then, once we got to LA when we were recording "Middle of Nowhere" we finished the song.

Taylor: Actually, we went through the whole album and basically had almost finished the album and Zac had had that idea throughout the whole record, throughout the 6 months we had been in LA and then finally we pulled it together and finished the song.

Isaac: Yeah, Zac had had the chorus idea.

Taylor: And then we kind of created this whole theme. The alien theme. That's behind it, you know, the fact that this song is about somebody sitting in the desert and there's this ali-, this guy sitting behind him, and . . .

Isaac: . . . who is a very strange looking man, and he wonders why this guy is sitting there and then he starts talking about the fact that he's from another planet . . .

Taylor: . . . and the guy doesn't believe him, but in the end, the guy goes away to the next planet . . .

Isaac: . . . the alien does . . .

Taylor: . . . the alien does, and then the person singing it, now he's the guy with the yellow walkie talkie, because he's now waiting to be taken away.

Isaac: . . . because he believes that there are aliens.

Taylor: Yeah, he believes that there are aliens, so in the end it's kind of turned around. That's really one of the rules of songwriting, you can write it about anything, as long as it sounds good. It could be the coolest song in the world.

Isaac: Yeah, it's your own rules, as long as it tells a story and it makes sense and it rhymes, or some . . .

Taylor: That's really not even something you have to follow. It's really your own rules, however you want to do it. It's your own game.

(*Zac, sounds like your brothers pretty much summed it up for you -- and yet, didn't you come up with the idea for this one? ;-D)

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