Songfacts®:

• The Heavy Hours said this tune, the first single from their Gardens album, is "about turning points, changes, and choices. It explores how pain can sometimes be felt during the good times – and also how love can be conjured, even in life's darkest chapters."
• Heavy Hours frontman Michael Marcagi said this was based on a riff that AJ Yorio, the band's guitarist, came up with when they were in middle school. Yorio noodled around with it for years before his bandmates finally agreed to use it in a song. "It was always this really pretty guitar lick," Marcagi told the Songfacts Podcast in 2022. "But the melody was always pretty crazy, and it was probably hard to play it and sing something at the same time."
  
  He continued: "Then me and Jon [Moon, bass] sat down and fleshed out this melody that fits in with the rest of the album, and we ended up really, really liking it. This was around the time where we found out Jon could sing really beautiful harmonies, so we're excited about the song because at the end of almost every verse and on the chorus, it has this long, drawn out three-part harmony, which is really fun. So it was a newer type of song that we hadn't really tried to write before and it ended up being really cool."
• The album consists of older songs the band wrote in the days before they got a record deal. They originally recorded them at a studio in Richmond, Virginia, with producer Adrian Olsen and, after launching their acclaimed Wildfire EP in 2021, they decided to rework the songs for their first full-length release.