“I had written Pittsburgh musically, and then Joel [Birch, vocalist] handed me a bunch of lyrics and I just kind of composed the words to the music. That was, from memory, super easy and very natural to stand the right lyrics for the right music. It was just one of those songs where everything lined up and I don't think I had to cut any of the words or anything; it was one of those songs where it was like, 'This is a good song. It's gonna be big, I think.' You think that about a lot of songs and it's not always true, but it was a no-brainer that it was gonna be liked and be our next single. It's a very emotional song and it was a unanimous vote that it would be the first single.
“We called it Pittsburgh because at Warped Tour 2013 Joel had a seizure, just from drinking too much and being too hot – it was really hot. I think he wrote the song about the way he was feeling after that situation; I think it's generally about how he was feeling until today. It's an outlet through lyrics, it's meaningful for him. It's all-encompassing lyrically… Well, you know what Joel always writes about. It’s kind of like the bond of our band.