Well...there actually wasn't a specific feeling I was trying to evoke. I just felt like writing something like that. When I was writing it, I though of three songs: "Pulling Teeth," by Green Day (again), "Survivor," by Destiny's Child; "Fighter," by Christina Aguilera. The ironic thing is, that first song isn't about a relationship at all, but it's about an actual physical injury that Billie Joe had gotten, which kept him unable to do too many things on his own for a bit.