This song is the climactic end-of-an-era for A Talking Fish. It is the last song released for 3 years, and marked the end of the primary music-writing and video-producing era of the group.

Given this fact, it is imbued with references to many other A Talking Fish songs. The following is a list of all the references:

0:00 – This intro is derived from a very, very, very early intro song on the A Talking Fish YouTube channel
0:24 – The lyrics “beautiful day” references the song “Don’t Bring Me Down (Beautiful Day)”
1:09 – This chord progression and melody come from “Don’t Bring Me Down (Beautiful Day)”
1:37 – This chord progression and melody come from an unreleased A Talking Fish song called “The Moon”
1:42 – This chord progression and melody come from “Thick Jacket”
1:47 – The banjo backup here is a reference to the chorus of “Cheesy Pop Song”
1:57 – This chord progression and melody come from “Thick Jacket”
2:26 – This chord progression and melody come from “Mailman”
2:42 – This chord progression comes from “Corn Dogs”
2:55 – This chord progression and melody come from “(I Want to Go to) Space”
3:14 – This chord progression and melody come from “Cheesy Pop Song”
3:38 – The chord progression, melody, and lyrics “Roger I’m not dead; can’t you get that through your head?” come from a song in “The Generator Video” (it uses the same chords as this part of “Cheesy Pop Song”, so the backing oboe continues that melody in tandem)
3:52 – The words "my friend" maintain the long-running tradition of ensuring that every instance of the word "friend" in A Talking Fish song lyrics is accompanied with at least 3 layers of harmonies.
4:44 – They lyrics “corn dogs with extra cheese” is a reference to the songs “Corn Dogs” and “Extra Cheese”
5:10 – The lyrics and melody of “Say goodbye to the world” references the lyrics and melody of the line “we could buy the world” from “We Are So Rich”
5:15 – The lyrics “I wanna go to space” reference the song “(I Want to Go to) Space”
5:18 – The lyrics and melody of “Singing makes all our problems go away” references the lyrics and melody of the line “Swinging makes all our problems go away” from “The Generator Video”. It also references the lyrics “The problems of the world cannot be solved just by singing!” from “Cheesy Pop Song”
5:22 – The lyrics “Are you sure we should be eating these corn dogs” references the lyrics “Are you sure we should be eating pudding” from “The Pudding Video”
5:25 – The lyrics “Everything good comes with a price” references the video “Corn Dogs”