Songfacts®:

• "Good Will Hunting" is a breakup song where singer Isaac Wood's girlfriend has moved on and moved away. He didn't want the relationship to end and will do anything to get her back.
• So what does this have to do with the 1997 movie of the same name? Isaac Wood, saxophonist Lewis Evans and guitarist Luke Mark's initial idea had been to write a song from the perspective of someone who has never seen Good Will Hunting and thinks the title is the main character's name. "Then we thought it was a stupid idea," Evans told Uncut magazine, "but the name just stuck."
• Black Country New Road listened to the music of Kurt Vile during the writing of "Good Will Hunting," especially rhythmically. "I can remember a conversation about when we wanted the drums to come in and to be super straight, super driven," Evans told Apple Music. "Then for the choruses, rhythmically, to completely flip and not feel like they were big at all. So for both the choruses, the drums are just tiny."
• Black Country, New Road recorded the song for Ants from Up There. They laid down the album at Chale Abbey Studios on the Isle of Wight over a two-week period during the summer of 2021. The band's longtime live sound engineer Sergio Maschetzko produced the record.