Songfacts®:

• Paul Weller married backing singer Hannah Andrews in 2010. They have three children: twins John Paul and Bowie (born in 2012) and a daughter, Nova (born in 2017). This stately song is about the nitty-gritty of a long-term relationship, when it's so easy to pass each other.
  
  We go for days without a word
  Without a kiss
  Both looking for something that we missed
  
  Weller told Mojo: "It's about that thing that happens to a lot of couples, especially with kids. You just miss each other. Everyone's walking around the kitchen, doing different things and you... don't notice each other."
• I thought I'd lost you for a while
  Couldn't find you in a crowd
  Hey baby, where you been?
  I get so lonely waiting for you
  Thought you didn't love me anymore
  
  During these periods of passing each other by, insecurity plagues Weller. He told Mojo: "You wonder, 'Are you still in love? Is it still working?' Because everything is so practical you need to work hard to see what you loved about that person."
• Weller wrote the song with Anth Brown and Mojo writer Tom Doyle. The two sent Weller the backing track a while before he recorded Fat Pop; it nearly made it onto his 2020 album On Sunset but didn't quite fit.
• Anth Brown and Tom Doyle recruited Dundee multi-instrumentalist Paul "Lefty" Wright to play his sitar on the track.
• Weller also wrote about his relationship with Hannah on another Fat Pop track, "Failed." That one finds him reflecting on his shortcomings after a blazing row.