"...Outside there's hectic action
The Ice is coverin' the trees
And one of em's interconnecting
With my Chevrolet Caprice

The great Ice Storm of early 1998 was the inspiration for this lyric. Mr. Downie himself explained it best during a radio appearance in Sausalito, California:

"You know it's taking on a certain epic of pioneer spirit. We weren't actually holed up in the house as the ice ravaged the county side. 'We've gotta make this record, Ice Storm be damned.' It put everything on hold in the entire North East for about five days and beyond. It crippled Quebec hydro power, anyway it was a huge storm, of huge magnitude. I was in Toronto, which never gets touched by weather of any sort, and these guys (the band) were in Kingston battling it out in their own individual ways as everyone was. Dealing with things from generator crime, to all manner of paranoia. Ya know, 'Escape from New York' material.

We came and we had to do a song, 'Something On.' And ya know, I guess the feel of a guitar neck is pretty nice after five days of... that."