Songfacts®:

• Emily Barker is an Australia-born and -bred country/folk singer-songwriter who relocated to England. This song finds her searching for the meaning of "home," which is a reoccurring theme throughout A Dark Murmuration of Words.
• Barker took the title of her A Dark Murmuration of Words album from this song.
  
  Down every dune of your shoreline
  I move with the migratory birds
  Me and my shadows in a flight path rhyme
  A dark murmuration of words
  
  Barker explained to The Sun: "I came up with this line when I was sitting in some sand dunes in South West Australia and looked up to see a flock of migratory birds. I felt how similar I was to them with my movement between two homes: Australia and the UK. I thought of all the words I've written on the theme of home over the years and imagined them all up in the sky migrating between the two countries."
• Greg Freeman produced A Dark Murmuration of Words. Freeman began his career working as a recording engineer at Peter Gabriel's Real World Studios, and later worked with such artists as Amy Winehouse ("Like Smoke," "Between The Cheats") and Rudimental ("Come Over").