Songfacts®:

• This song was originally recorded by the Australian singer Missy Higgins. She described it as a sad love song about "one of those situations where you just feel that leaving this person is something you have to do to get to know yourself again."
  
  Released as the second single from her 2007 On a Clear Night album, it peaked at #10 on her home country's ARIA chart.
• Rimes covered this for her 2013 Spitfire album. She noted during a live preview of the record that a friend first played the tune for her while she was going through her divorce from Dean Sheremet. "I couldn't have written it any better," she said.
• Rimes married Eddie Cibrian in 2011, two years after they met and began an affair while filming the TV movie Northern Lights. After enduring tabloid scrutiny and the public ire from Eddie's ex-wife, Brandi Glanville, for years, Rimes told her side of the story through the Spitfire album.
  
  "Someone said to me yesterday that this album is like taking a knife and stabbing myself in public," she told The New York Times. "And it's true - I'm letting everyone watch while I rip my guts out. There was not an ounce of me left to put on this record. It was the most fearless I've ever been, in anything that I've ever done."
• Higgins' version was used in these TV shows:
  
  Redfern Now ("Starting Over" - 2013)
  Pretty Little Liars ("The Homecoming Hangover" - 2010)
  Ghost Whisperer ("Blessings In Disguise" - 2010)
  One Tree Hill ("I Forgot To Remember To Forget" - 2008)
  Grey's Anatomy ("Crash Into Me: Part 1" - 2007)
  Smallville ("Cure" - 2007)