Songfacts®:

• This is the first single from 2009 American Idol winner Kris Allen's debut major label album. The song was premiered on the Elvis Duran Show from New York radio station Z100. When it was played, it was the first time that Allen had ever heard one of his songs on the radio.
• The song was originally recorded by Irish pop rockers, The Script and featured on the Japanese edition of their self-titled debut album. Allen told MTV News that the tune had been earmarked as a single once he began working on his post-Idol album back in May. He explained: "[The song] was actually one that we had listened to really early on, and we kind of just fell in love with it. Everyone did."
• The positive message of this "life wisdom" song was a factor in Allen's decision to cover it.
• Regarding the lyric, "So if your life flashed before you / What would you wish you would have done?," Kris admitted to MTV News that if he were suddenly on his way out, "I wish I would have skydived." He explained: "It's random, but I have always wanted to. I'm really scared to, but I think that it would be the biggest rush."
• Allen told Reuters: "It's got a really jumpy chorus that I feel people can really get into, turn the windows down in their car and sing along with it."
• Allen recalled to Billboard magazine the filming of the song's music video: "It was really fun shooting it - we shot it from 8 p.m. until 8 a.m. so it was an all-night thing with no breaks. [The shoot was] set up like a digital clock, but it's huge, it's this monstrous thing-like 25 feet tall and who knows how long. I get to hold a flare, which was pretty cool. I ended up throwing it at people on set. [laughs]."
• Script guitarist Mark Sheehan discussed Allen's version of their tune in an interview with Virgin.com: "Before The Script we wrote for other artists. When we write for The Script, there are always extra songs that don't make the cut. They have to make sense live and come across well on the album, or we don't do it. That was one of the songs we didn't want to put out, but our sneaky label put it out in Germany without telling us. Then we heard Kris Allen was doing it, and we didn't even know we'd released it! We wouldn't have done it if we'd been asked, but it is a really good pop song and it works for him. It worked out well in the end."