 "Your Flag Decal Won't Get You into Heaven Anymore" is an anti-war song which attacks phony patriotism, especially in the context of exhibitionistic chauvinism.The song was inspired by an edition of "Reader’s Digest" featuring a free flag decal, “suitable for sticking on car windows, storm doors, or anywhere else Middle America felt inspired to show its fealty to the U.S. government.”

Prine has said in several interviews that "Far From Me" is his favorite song that he has written, with the John Prine Shrine website quoting the singer explaining that the line "a broken bottle looks just like a diamond ring" "is in reference to my childhood.We were raised close to a junkyard and one of my favorite pastimes was playing in the junkyard breaking bottles.