Some famously great pop songs apparently have been written in ten or fifteen minutes. 'Fingertips' is that kind of pop song – a simple, no bullshit thing.
It probably didn't take more than fifteen minutes to write, but – mystically – it took eleven years to record. We tried it for 'Lost Causes' and 'Chemistry and Math', but couldn't agree on the sound. So now we just finished it, more or less as we originally played it during rehearsals in 2010...