Dan Searle:

It starts just with the strings and the bass. We planned around those ideas and developed it into something that worked for the band. It sat around for ages on the shelf, and eventually we sat down with it and worked it out. I think it’s one of the best songs on the record.

— via Apple Music

Dan Searle talked about the song in the cover story of Kerrang! Magazine:

So much of the record is a caricature of my saddest and darkest moments. I always think that if you read the lyrics then you must think I’m right on the edge of not wanting to be in this world. It’s a distillation of those feelings and those moments because if I took this material and started writing about my love for my daughter, it wouldn’t work and Sam wouldn’t be the appropriate person to sing it.

The ​'I just want to live and die in peace' reference from “Memento Mori”, which like so much of the record is a nudge to myself that I should have some perspective. The idea that it’s so easy to get lost in trivialities is not so much a reference to what Tom was saying, but a reference to what happened with Tom. It’s really about getting lost in feelings that sponsor your thoughts, then your thoughts run away with themselves and you lose sight of any kind of perspective. So much of the record is bleak, lyrically, yet on the face of it I live a privileged, great life – healthy, happy, with a family, a bit of money, and the only job I’d ever want.