Dashboard Confessional: How I Wrote Hands Down

“Over the course of my career so far, I’ve not had hit singles, as such. I’ve had some radio success. But what Hands Down and other things like MTV Unplugged, or Vindicated from the Spider-Man 2 soundtrack did is they moved the cultural needle, for lack of a better way to express it. And that’s what’s gifted me this longevity, besides the audience who are so dedicated to Dashboard. “When it came to Hands Down, I’d been touring quite a lot and I’d come home to see my mother at Christmas time. I’d gotten home and stayed with her for a couple of days. Then one day she went off, I’d no idea where she’d gone, so I was at her apartment and I wrote Hands Down. I knew it was different immediately. “The thing is, I know what the rub on Dashboard is. I know the idea is that if you do...

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