Isaac: We wrote the song, "Yearbook" with a lady named, Ellen Shipley and during the time we were writing with her we had come up with 2 songs ideas. And as we were writing those 2 songs, we somehow came up with the lines, someone said, "Dear Amy, see you in September . . ." as we were playing chords on a keyboard . . .

Taylor: . . . I don't even . . .

Isaac: And it just had this a ring to it. And then, we kind of stopped, and started talking about that. And it sounded like something that someone would write in a yearbook.

Taylor: "Dear Amy, I'll see you in September" and it just seemed right. And as we kept talking about it . . .

Isaac: . . . and writing the song . . .

Taylor: . . . and writing the song and kept playing the chords, we kind of left the other 2 songs behind. And before we knew it, we had another song. And it had this whole theme behind it, the theme became . . .

Isaac: . . . the mystery of Johnny . . .

Taylor: . . . the mystery of Johnny, some kid disappearing and you've got that picture in the yearbook where his face is not there and everybody wonders from then on why, why he disppeared.

Isaac: Because in a yearbook, there is often times in a class there's . . .

Taylor: . . . one person who didn't show up . . .

Isaac: . . . there's a little square that somebody didn't show up on picture day and it says, "Picture Unavailable."

Taylor: One thing that's funny about that song is everybody always asks, you know, "Where did Johnny go?" That's one of the questions if they're going to ask about a song it's . . . people wonder where we think he went, and really that's, there was no conclusion to it, because we don't even know. It's more . . .

Isaac: We purposely decided to not conclude the song, and to not give it an ending.

Taylor: It left it a mystery, it left it for whoever is listening to figure it out.

Isaac: Often times people think Johnny's dead, but you know, that's not even true because, again . . .

Taylor: . . . unless you just want to think that.

Isaac: Yeah, it's all for you to decide.

(*Zac, these conversations explain a lot - your yellow pants, those Dr. Martins that match, your wacky side. How else are you heard in your family? ;-D)

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