Near the end of the Nerdist podcast #132, Folds mentioned that the lyrics for "Cigarette" were taken from a newspaper article he claimed was about a man, Fred Jones, who "felt conflicted" after finding his wife had a changed personality due to a brain tumor, on the basis that she was not the same person he had married. (The article, from a 1991 edition of "The Tennessean", is actually about the implanted epidural catheter procedure that brought Jones and his wife renewed peace after her years of pain.) The "sequel" track, "Fred Jones Part Two," is on Folds' first solo album, "Rockin' the Suburbs".