track, with Lind playing a different kit during the chorus and bridge portions. "Just Watch the Fireworks" began as a slower, ballad-esque type song, until Trombino suggested changing it to mid-tempo. The final version is drawn out by Katayama's and Joel Derouin's string parts. The power ballad "For Me This Is Heaven" uses a number of rhythmic parts, which was the result of Lind and Trombino playing with a variety of hand percussion instruments at their disposal. Adkins remarked: "They were wheeling in timpani when we realized we had taken it a little too far." Mia Huges of Spin said it was a "love song that’s about endings, and believing that love is worth it, despite their inevitability". "Blister" recalls the melodic aggression of Static Prevails. Adkins said fans have asked why it is the only track on the album to feature Linton on lead vocals; "I think in leading up to Clarity I started immediately putting words to the music ideas I had. After that happened it was hard to not want to sing it." The title track, "Clarity", includes alternative tunings; Adkins said the band sounded unique, and were not a representation of their record collections. As such, "Clarity" was chosen as the title track. The closing track, "Goodbye Sky Harbor", lasts for 16 minutes and 11 seconds, starting as an up-tempo piece, and eventually shifting to a long section of dream pop that incorporates layers of electric guitars, vocal loops, a drum machine, and bells. The instruments fade out, being replaced with layered vocals that are then joined by percussion and a glockenspiel. The lyric "I am but one small instrument" is heard throughout the song. Adkins said they enjoyed playing the track's main guitar riff, and used a whole tape reel for it. Throughout the sessions, they continued "adding stuff and adding stuff, and it just got really ridiculous. It was basically because we could." Adkins said that he always wanted to work the books he was reading into his lyrics; the song's lyrics were based on John Irving's novel A Prayer for Owen Meany (1989). Release and promotion CEO of Capitol Records Gary Gersh was replaced by Roy Lott in 1998; Gersh later became Jimmy Eat World's co-manager. He felt the label's new regime was not equipped for developing a band like them. Adkins said Capitol had debated on when to release Clarity; as it