I wrote this song in 2013. Originally, the song was about depression. I had heard that Winston Churchill suffered with occasional bouts of depression and that when he was having a bad day he would say "the black dog showed up today". After I got into the song, I realized that it was more about addiction - or maybe it's about being addicted to being depressed :-) In general, this is my attempt at a humorous metaphor and ironically it is one of my most happy sounding uptempo tunes :-)