Jewel: “[Co-writer and ex-boyfriend] Steve Poltz and I were sitting on the beach in Mexico, and these three figures walked up, and they were Federales. So we asked the obvious and pertinent question, ‘Where can we get a boat to go whale watching?’ They said we could go with them. So we went out in the water in this little skiff with two wooden benches and I was like, ‘What brings you guys here?’ And they said they were on a drug bust. So while we looked for whales they were looking for drug smugglers. They ended up finding a boat and started following it until we were on this full-speed chase. They had life vests and automatic weapons, and they offered us each. I didn’t want to, but Steve Poltz is Catholic, which means he is irresistibly drawn to anything that’s wrong. So we ended up finding this huge rock over a hole, and we pushed the rock out of the way and there were just thousands of pounds of marijuana. They were like, ‘There’s gonna be a party tonight, do you want to come?’ I didn’t want anything to do with it. I was so convinced we were going to end up framed or something. I was really paranoid! But we got this picture of Steve holding a kilo of marijuana and me holding an AR-15 with the Federales. It was pretty funny. There were no shots fired, which was a relief. So we came back to shore and wrote several songs that day, one of which ended up being ‘You Were Meant For Me.'”