“Abulia” refers to a lack of will or initiative and can be seen as a disorder of diminished motivation, whereas “Akrasia” is described as a lack of self-control or the state of acting against one’s better judgment.

In an interview, he said about the track:

This is a strange one, because there’s this vocalist named C.W. Stoneking, who was the vocalist on that song. I just love his voice so much. He was in New York, and I asked if he could come down, and he said he could, so I wrote this poem for him to recite. It was basically me trying to find as many words as I could that I wanted to hear him say, because I love his speaking voice. How can I make the most complicated poem about wanting a cup of tea? That became my goal.