Having liked the chemistry between Charlie Midnight, Recke and Duff on "Santa Claus Lane", Landers asked Midnight to provide material for "Metamorphosis". He submitted "quite a few songs" for the album because he loved working with Duff. He concentrated on trying to "bounce things" off Recke, Landers and Duff about "what topics they thought would be right" for the album. Midnight was "pretty much ground zero" for a lot of people involved with "Metamorphosis", according to Charlton Pettus; he was the lyricist who "seemed to get the tone of it all".