Songfacts®:

• During the COVID-enforced lockdown period in 2020, Amazons frontman Matt Thomson began penning material solo on an acoustic guitar for his LA-based girlfriend. They'd been separated for months, and on "Say It Again" he recalls a happy memory when they were together. "I'm really spelling out a particular morning in Los Angeles, where my girlfriend lives," Thomson told Apple Music. "When someone takes a risk and expresses that they'll love you, and your world being turned upside down and kicking the door down into this completely new universe where all the things you saw yesterday are now are completely different."
• American singer-songwriter Maggie Rogers helped write the song. Thomson has had a musical friendship with Rogers since they met at Glastonbury in 2017. He'd been stuck on "Say It Again" for months, and one day when hanging out at her house, he asked her how she would approach the chorus. "She just instantly started singing this emotive, fun melody and it just opened up this whole new room of ideas and possibilities for the song, and it was super inspiring to see someone work like that," he recalled to The Daily Star. "She's incredibly talented."
• Thomson sent the bare bones of "Say It Again" to his bandmates. They then embellished his track and recorded it for How Will I Know if Heaven Will Find Me. "It holds off for a really long time," guitarist Chris Alderton said, "and then, once you get to that middle-eight, it turns into this big, celebratory piece of music to back up that chorus that you've already heard twice."
• The Amazons took the album title from a lyric on the opening track, "How Will I Know." It takes inspiration from Thomson's experiences of a long distance relationship throughout the pandemic. "It encapsulates how we were feeling when we hadn't seen anything for a while," he told Rolling Stone. "And more specifically the record is inspired by the emotional rollercoaster I've been in through a long distance relationship over the last couple of years."