Story time! The lyrics came about when a friend from England was visiting Steven Page. The friend was looking at a map of Toronto and made the comment that the city had beautiful street names and pointed to the intersection of Jane and St. Claire as an example. For those of us who grew up there we know that it was a really ugly. There was a junkyard on one corner, a Dairy Queen on the other all on the edge of the meatpacking district. So somewhere in there a song was born.