The Rules was a riff that Gord [Sinclair] presented us. Everyone copped to the idea really quickly and Gord [Downie] had these great lyrics that fit so well, "legs scream at bikes and bikes scream at trucks and motorists curse their lousy luck."

From the time that Gord brought the idea in to the time that we got it on tape was not long at all. I think the beauty of this song is its simplicity. This is another song that Bob Egan plays on. We knew there were some songs on this record that would benefit from his excellent pedal steel so we invited him up in January. We met Bob last summer on ARA. He was playing pedal steel with Wilco so everyone, including Steve knew Bob. Johnny Fay