Songfacts®:

• View frontman Kyle Falconer was distraught when his mum Elizabeth died suddenly in November 2009, just two days before the band were due to play at The Homecoming Live festival. This lump-in-throat symphonic tune is about his late mother. "Mum used to call us glass-arse, " he told Q magazine: "Cos I've got a problem sitting still and if I sat down I'd break it. I used taw write songs wi' a pen on my bedroom door in the middle of the night. Then I'd wake up next morning and cannae read them."
• Falconer told the NME that the song evolved over a long period of time: "I wrote the first part of this song back in 2004. It took until last year until I had the inspiration (the death of my Mum) to be able to finish it off. We wrote about 50 tunes for this record, some finished, some not. It's not a bad thing or lack of inspiration that lead us to bring back an old idea, sometimes they just need a few years to breathe and for life to catch up on the original idea."
• This Royal Philharmonic Orchestra-supported ballad is the slowest song that The View has recorded to date. Said Falconer to the NME: "Varying tempo across the album was definitely part of the plan when we were putting it together."
• Falconer previously paid tribute to his dad who died of cancer in 2003 on the track "Unexpected."