Originally released as an exclusive track on the Target CD Edition of Bastille’s third studio album, Doom Days, the song was later included as the 15th track of the extended version of the album, Doom Days: This Got Out of Hand.
Following the release of the extended version, Smith had the opportunity to sit down and explain each of the new tracks on the album on his social media platforms in under 30 seconds. About this track, he explained:

This was the song that the chorus for “Doom Days” originally came from. It was pretty faithful to how it was from the beginning. It was initially much less about the problems of now and it was much more about the end of a relationship in the apocalypse. I’m really happy [that] we finally got it out there; I love the drop at the end — we wanted to sort of take people’s heads off a bit. I just wanted to show everyone a bit of our process on how some songs start and morph into other ones.