Songfacts®:

• Maia Sharp celebrates the beauty of imperfection on this tune from her Echo album, singing about a work of art that was destroyed when its so-called flaws were fixed. It was a lesson she was still learning. In a 2012 Songfacts interview, she said she included the track on the album "to remind me to loosen up."
  
  She continued: "Even as we were recording it I remember standing over (engineer) Krish Sharma's shoulder asking him to tune a tiny syllable that was a hair sharp and he turned around and said, 'Maia, listen to the song.' Some of my favorite recordings from my favorite artists have quirky human moments and I love that about them so why don't I embrace it in my own work? I'm getting there."
• This features vocals from Bonnie Raitt, one of Sharp's musical idols. It wasn't the first time the pair collaborated. Sharp sang on a few tracks from Raitt's 2005 album, Souls Alike, which also had Raitt introducing the Sharp-penned ballad "I Don't Want Anything To Change." Shortly after, she was invited to tour and perform with Raitt as her opening act.
• Sharp thought this track had the "right palette for a Bonnie Raitt vocal." In a 2009 NPR interview with Melissa Block, she recalled Raitt recording a different melody from the one she sang for her. When Raitt tried to apologize, Sharp told her, "Don't ever sing what I sang you. Sang what you just sang, because it blows away mine. She just owned, as she always does."
• Another Raitt connection: Echo was produced by Don Was, who helmed Raitt's 1989 commercial breakthrough Nick Of Time - the winner for Album of the Year at the 1990 Grammy Awards.
• Sharp released the album, her fourth full-length release, through her own label, Crooked Crown. Her first three albums were issued through three different labels, but none of them gave her what she needed. By the time Don Was agreed to produce Echo, she wasn't attached to a label and didn't have time to find one. Was wanted a specific studio and team to work on the album, including famed session drummer Jim Keltner - known for his work with John Lennon, Bob Dylan, and Barbra Streisand, among others - who was only available for four days. So Sharp made the leap without a label and they got to work, with the whole album taking just two weeks to record and master.