How's It Going To Be

"How's It Going to Be" is a song by the rock band Third Eye Blind. Released in November 1997 as the third single from their self-titled debut album, it reached #9 on the US Billboard Hot 100, becoming the band's second consecutive Top 10 single. In Canada, the single peaked at #6, and in Iceland it peaked at #32. Written by Kevin Cadogan and Stephan Jenkins, the song deals with the trauma of the ending of a relationship and how the transition from friends to acquaintances is a brutal one. In an interview with Stephan Jenkins published in Billboard, he explained: The song’s inspiration came about when Third Eye guitarist Kevin Cadogan was tinkering around with an autoharp, 'which is a vintage-sounding instrument that you can’t really play without it having a sort of nostalgic sound to it. That inspired this emotional condition in me,' Jenkins says. That condition surrounds the idea of lost love, of realizing that there may come a despairing day when the two meet and no longer know each other. 'I think we all feel violated when we find that a relationship actually has time limits, that it’s not unconditional. That’s the thing that aches in people,' he explains. 'That’s something everybody can relate to, even when you know you have no business being with this person anymore.'