"Hey John, What's Your Name Again?" is the opening track of 2007 album, Plagues . While the song’s title sounds like a sarcastic or dismissive remark from a shallow conversation, its "deep story" is rooted in a critique of materialism and the loss of internal faith in modern society. Lyrical Meaning and Themes

The song serves as a manifesto against superficiality, a theme central to the band's identity at the time. Key themes include:

The song’s themes are a direct extension of why the band chose their name. They derived from the novel of the same name, believing it carried an anti-materialistic moral: that at the Last Judgment, God will not care about your designer possessions. Even after realizing the book's message wasn't strictly about that, they kept the name as a symbol of this non-materialistic philosophy.

Watch the official music video for 'Hey John, What's Your Name Again?' to see the early metalcore energy that defined the band's message: