Songfacts®:

• Ryder is Madison Beer's younger brother. He is a huge part of her life, but for a long time he's been hidden by her seismic, fame-sized shadow. She felt really guilty about making her life seem more important than his, so she penned this apology to him.
  
  "My career started at 12. He was nine," Beer explained to the UK newspaper The Sun. "He didn't ask to be moved out of school so I could live in LA or for the craziness that came with me being his sister. I love him. He deserves this song."
• Madison Beer has written plenty of songs about romantic relationships but has always wanted to pen one for her brother.
  
  "I think there are so many different relationships that life has to offer you, and the one with your sibling is very important, and I think it can also be very complex," she said on TikTok. "Ryder has played definitely one of, if not the most important roles in my life. Felt like it was time to give him a song."
• Just two kids caught in the crossfire
  Close your eyes, I know you're so tired
  Just kids, you and I, I know it's hard sometimes
  But you'll be alright, we'll be alright
  
  The song originated with the lyric, "Just two kids caught in the crossfire," which Beer had in her head. She set out to write a song where the predominant sentiment was you're going to be fine and we'll be alright.
  
  "I think that we all are big kids that are going through life, and you can describe life as 'crossfire.' You're always trying to dodge and figure out what's going on and I just didn't want to like harp on that for too long on the chorus," she explained to Genius. "I wanted to just be like, you know, me being a big sister, like, just close your eyes, I know you're tired, like, I love you and everything's going to be okay."
• Beer wrote "Ryder" for her second album, Silence Between Songs. It's her favorite track on the record because she penned it for her brother.
  
  "I felt like he deserved to hear all the things that I said," she told The Independent. "But at the same time, I think he found peace in it as well. I think hearing [that] and having somebody recognize things that you've potentially been through, I think means a lot."
• Madison Beer wrote the song with rapper and songwriter Jeremy Dussolliet, along with producers Leroy Clampitt, and Tim Sommers.
  
  Dussolliet, and Sommers are an American musical duo from New York City known as Kinetics & One Love. They had their first taste of success as Cornell University students when they wrote the chorus for B.o.B's 2010 hit "Airplanes." Dussollet was Beer's primary songwriter partner for Silence Between Songs and Clampitt and Tim Sommers her principal production partners.