Alice Merton told Bittersweet Symphonies,

We decided to take the very first vocal take we did of it because there is this kind of rawness in it and it almost feels shaky. But it was the most powerful one when it came to feeling-wise… like there are some of the notes where I notice, I listen back and I’m like, ‘Wow it’s a little bit wobbly’ but it has the most emotion.

And I think that was really important to me, it felt really close that take, it felt like it was someone who was just whispering in my ear, and yeah, it touched us all so we were like, ‘You know what, we’re gonna take that one, and we’re gonna keep that rawness and the parts in it that make it feel very… where you question, like, ‘is she singing that note properly?’’ and we decided to keep that in there, so.

I tried to re-record the vocals after, a few months later, and it just… that feeling was so fresh, it was the recording we had to take. It couldn’t be re-done to that same extent of emotion.