In addition to their shared affinity for music and burning whisky, John was also always nursing heartbreak. He positively goaded Draco’s depressing songwriting as he sipped a few fingers of "the good stuff’, often offering his own suggestions. Gem, along with Your Eyes, was another addition to what John teasingly referred to as Draco’s "Sad Boy Anthology’. It was, of course, another musical diary piece relating his feelings about the destruction of his old relationship.