How I Go

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"How I Go" is a Yellowcard song off the album Lights and Sounds. It is heavily based on the movie Big Fish.

The song is backed by acoustic guitars and a 25-piece orchestra.

The track is a duet between Ryan Key and Dixie Chicks vocalist Natalie Maines. The band had long wanted to record a song with Maines, and got their chance when the Dixie Chicks happened to be recording in the same studio.

The character Ed Bloom refers to his death as "how I go". It is repeated several times in the movie.

Ed Bloom's tall tales are referenced in the song in the following ways:

[edit] Specific References to Big Fish

"My friend the giant"
"Traveling sales"
"Drying out"
The phrase "how I go" in reference to one's death
"A man not so tall who said, 'life's a circus'"
"A girl that I saw / I froze in the moment"
"Son, I am not everything you thought that I would be/every story I have told is part of me"