Songfacts®:

• This is the lead single from Barenaked Ladies' eleventh studio album, All In Good Time, their first record following the departure of founding member Steven Page in February 2009.
• Co-vocalist and guitarist Ed Robertson explained in publicity materials how the writing process for All in Good Time was different from past Barenaked Ladies albums: "This was a chance for me to shed some of my writing dependencies, both good and bad, and explore new ground. I allowed myself to go places that I might not have in the past. I was more literal at times, and more abstract at others, pushing the self-imposed limits I'd adhered to for too long. The writing was cathartic for me in a way that writing hadn't been since the early nineties. It had been a huge and often dark year: an arrest, a plane crash and the death of my mother. All of these things took a heavy toll on my psyche, and spurred a lot of serious exploring."
  
  The results of Robertson's personal explorations can be heard in this story of missed opportunities and remorse.