Songfacts®:

• This is a track from My Morning Jacket's The Waterfall album. Frontman Jim James explained the reason why he titled this song after the season of rebirth to Uncut: "Because this album took a year to make, I see a lot of seasons in this record," he said. "There is a song called Spring, which doesn't take a lot to work out. I see waterfalls and I see leaves blowing and I see plants dying. I see those kinds of images throughout this record."
• It's no surprise that the cover art for The Waterfall is a waterfall, but it took some time to find the right image. James collected a number of black-and-white photos of notable rapids, but he wanted a colorful image to match the warm vibe of the album. He ultimately tasked photographer Neil Krug to colorize an image of Vernal Falls in Yosemite National Park, which is around 200 miles from where the band recorded the album in Stinson Beach, California. But, as MMJ bassist Tom Blankenship explains, the image is an accurate representation of their time soaking up the seaside atmosphere.
  
  "It's related to our time in Stinson Beach," he explained in a 2015 Glide Magazine interview. "Like those walks to and from the studio. Being connected to nature. Literally being surrounded by trees and creatures every time we walked out of the studio doors. Every evening around sunset we would stop what we were doing and walk outside to watch the sun descend, like an enormous egg yolk slowly smashing down in a psychedelic wash of color, much like the colors of the waterfall on the album cover. Those images, the smell of ocean air and the openness of it all, seeped into every aspect of this record."
• James released his debut solo album, Regions Of Light And Sound Of God in 2013, two years before MMJ dropped The Waterfall, their seventh studio effort. James told DIY Magazine how his self-produced, electronic-leaning debut influenced the making of The Waterfall.
  
  "I've been getting more into the realm of the computer in my solo album, and we dwell more in the realm of the tape in My Morning Jacket, so it was cool to start mixing those worlds in editing, shaping the songs, putting together things that aren't normally supposed to go together," he explained in the 2015 interview. "It was fun in songs like 'Spring' or 'In Its Infancy (The Waterfall)' to just record little snippets of a song, not knowing exactly how they would end up together. I would then go back into the computer and tinker with the parts to make them fit together in a new way. New things would pop up as a result - unexpected parts singing or clashing, things getting thrown off or finding new time. We would play with that and see where that would take us. I love playing in a band but I also love working alone, building and stacking, and knocking down, and building again in the crazy Tetris rainbow block-world of the regions of light in a Pro Tools edit screen."
• This was used on the TV series The Blacklist in the 2015 episode "T. Earl King VI (No. 94)."