Songfacts®:

• This is the first single from Southern Rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd's twelfth studio album, Gods & Guns. It was their first release since 2003's Vicious Cycle.
• The band has experienced several tragedies, most notably the loss of several members in a 1977 plane crash. This song was written after the death of original bassist Leon Wilkeson in 2001. Gary Rossington (guitar) told AntiMUSIC about the track: "It's kind of about us and me, and what we've been through and done. Anybody can relate to it that's been through a lot and had a life go on. A lot of stuff happens."
  
  Johnny Van Zant (vocals) added: "We wrote that before Vicious Circle. Gary always keeps a cassette of stuff, he brought it in while we were in the studio, said 'ya'll need to listen to this, man; we can do something with this.'"
  
  Rickey Medlocke (guitar) concluded: "That song actually was written quite a few years ago, right after Leon passed away. What ended up happening was we listened to the song again and it was so appropriate for us today."
• This was the official Theme Song of the WWE Breaking Point Pay-Per-View event on September 13th 2009.
• Though this song is a personal anthem about overcoming adversity, Rossington feels it strikes a universal chord. He told Billboard magazine: "Huey Thomasson (of The Outlaws) wrote that song with us-me, Johnny and Rickey - and he passed away a couple of years ago, so that shows you how long we were writing for this album. That is kind of our story, but you can find a lot of people in life that are still unbroken. You go through stuff and you keep going."