Songfacts®:

• This is the lead single from Dark Island, the second full-length album from Villages, a folk-rock band that hails from Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia. Singer Matt Ellis told the Songfacts podcast the song is about a fantasy that most of us have about starting over.
  
  He explained: "There's a lot of optimism and hopefulness in the tune. It's about decisions in your life that you need to make - something I'm sure a lot of us think about is like, What if I packed up and left all the busyness of the modern age and this life and moved to a blackhouse in the Highlands and just lived a simple life? Doesn't it seem like that's where the answer lies at times? And this song was just all about that, about actually acting on impulse and pursuing that."
• Villages debuted with a self-titled album in 2019, and it won the prize for Folk Recording Of The Year at the Nova Scotia Music Awards later that year. Prior to forming the band, Ellis and his bandmates released three indie-rock albums under the name Mardeen. With Villages, they wanted to take an experimental approach to the traditional Celtic music of their homeland.
• "We're really proud of being from Cape Breton," Matt Ellis told SaltWire Network. "We wanted to write music that connects us on a deeper level and borrows elements of traditional music but not rehash what's already out there."