Half-A-Room described by Ono as a response to her feeling at the time that "there was a half empty space in my life" as a result of the increasing estrangement of her and her second husband, Anthony Cox. Ono awoke one day and noticed that her Cox had not returned from a night out, and so the bed was half empty, and through this realised that there was "a half empty space in my life". The magazine "Another Magazine" wrote in 2015 that the piece "speaks to the pointlessness of material things without the human connection that gives them meaning; the
A City by the Light Divided the band went on the second leg of the Shirts for a Cure tour, with support from Minus the Bear, mewithoutYou and We're All Broken. "A City by the Light Divided" was released on May 2 through Island Records. The UK version of the album, which was released through Hassle Records, included the bonus track "Even the Sand Is Made of Seashells". In May and June, the group went on a UK tour. In the summer, the band went on the 2006 edition of Warped Tour. In October and November, the group went on the 2006 international edition of the