Songfacts®:

• "Love To Walk Away" is a guitar banger about the kind of relationship that leaves you feeling like a doorstop: heavy and constantly getting kicked aside.
  
  Vaccines lead singer Justin Young pours his heart out here, chronicling the woes of a one-sided love affair. He waits around night after night for a partner who seems to have a talent for vanishing acts. The frustration is palpable – you can practically hear the unanswered texts pinging off his phone. And what's worse, he doesn't even quite understand why this keeps happening.
• The Vaccines recorded "Love To Walk Away" for their sixth album, Pick-Up Full of Pink Carnations. The song sets the tone for the album, which is all about loss, heartbreak, and that bewildered fumbling around you do afterwards trying to make sense of it all.
• The Vaccines penned the song on their first day in the studio with their LA-based producer Andrew Wells (Halsey, Phoebe Bridgers) and former Dirty Pretty Things guitarist Anthony Rossomando. It gave them their direction for the album.
  
  "'Love To Walk Away' was the first song we wrote for the record, and it immediately acted as this sort of sonic signpost," Young told The Sun. "Thematically too, it was a beacon. It felt exciting, inspiring and it felt right. So once we had that, we knew what path we wanted to walk down."
• The album title comes from a misremembered lyric from Don McLean's classic song "American Pie." The real lyric is:
  
  I was a lonely teenage broncin' buck
  With a pink carnation and a pickup truck