Songfacts®:

• The lead single from Lisa O'Neill's fifth studio album, All Of This Is Chance, finds the Irish singer-songwriter contemplating her relationship with nature. O'Neill usually seeks solitude in nature to work on her songs, staying in the mountains or a lakeside cottage, but the COVID-19 lockdown kept her at home, where she wrote her fifth album, All Of This Is Chance. She told Songfacts in 2023:
  
  "There's a lot to be said for staying in one place for a while and seeing how the subject changes or the thing that you're working on changes. I can only be in a moment at a time, and I don't look at the process as one big story. It was different and enjoyable and there was a lot of solitude involved."
• O'Neill chose this as a single because of the reaction it received from early listeners before the album came out. "They all said similar things, 'There's something about it,'" she told Songfacts. "I was really happy because it was one of my first choices as well, but I didn't think they'd go for it because it was so long. But they did. Sometimes those decisions are not overthought or overcommunicated. It's a lovely song. I think it's special."
• The album's themes of nature and creativity were influenced by Patrick Kavanagh's 1942 epic poem "The Great Hunger" (the title references the famines that impacted millions of people in Ireland during the 1840s). In 2020, O'Neill was invited to perform at the Irish Museum Of Modern Art for an outdoor adaptation of the piece, which deeply moved the singer.
  
  "When Patrick Kavanagh wrote this poem, he was talking about a hunger for the freedom of the mind. My album is very much about freedom. How much freedom do we really have? Do we have freedom of thought?" she mused in an interview with The Creative Independent.
  
  "I think he felt that the imagination was oppressed. Our imagination it's still in us, and it comes out through music, songs, and poetry and said of frustrations. We know we were robbed of aspects of ourselves, of our true selves. That's quite a dark way of putting it, but that's colonization across the globe. That's the depths of the effect of it. We're traumatized."
• Colm Mac Con Iomaire of the Irish-rock band The Frames played the violin on the track.