Songfacts®:

• Although Vonda Shepard wrote and recorded her Red Light, Green Light album - produced by her husband, Mitchell Froom - during the COVID-19 pandemic, she told Songfacts that this track is her only "pandemic song." She explained:
  
  "When I wrote the first line, 'Breathe the air I forgot was there,' I knew I was on to something. The song is about how we are literally trapped in our houses, but the chorus has these uplifting lyrics:
  
  To the stars, we will fly
  To heaven and Mars, not so far
  
  Originally I had the line, 'in our minds,' but I decided that people could figure that out. The end of the song has Mitchell's absolutely enchanting keyboards solo-ed, so you can really hear the magic he's creating. That is one of my favorite parts of the album. It's made for dreamers... and astrophysicists."
• Shepard explained how the pandemic influenced the making of the album. "It took a massive amount of discipline to go through this process," she said, "but the isolation actually lent itself to going deep into the writing."