As for "Wichita Lineman," Dwight says, "The first time I began to sing it, Pete and I both started to smile because we realized I had never explored that kind of vocal range on record," he says. "Jimmy Webb wrote some brilliant songs and this is certainly on par with the best that he ever wrote. I know everyone alludes to 'MacArthur Park' as being his great triumph, but lyrically, I'm hesitant to exclude 'Wichita Lineman' from that same level of genius. Singing the lyrics of that song in the studio was both an exhilarating and eerie experience. There's such a mystical, other-worldly kind of quality that comes out of the imagery (due in part to the lyrical use of an experience with its extreme juxtaposition of a repairman working on a highline pole while simultaneously communicating telepathically with a lover) that the song seemed to take on a sort of wildly metaphysical importance in my mind as I was singing it. And it is a further example of Webb's metaphoric expression being so blindly brilliant that his songwriting talent all but defies analysis and description. So why did I try? We were all pleased with it and felt satisfied with the fact that in the rehearsal and arrangement process, we had not just mimicked someone else's version of a great song, but we achieved our own interpretation of the material. And that's what we were trying to do with every track on the record."