This song finds a frustrated Florence Welch singing of a wishy-washy man. "You were on the other side, like always, wondering what to do with life," she sings to her "holy fool" of a lover. Welch wrote the track with singer-songwriter Kip Harpoon, a songwriter she collaborated with on her 2011 hit "Shake It Out." His other credits include Calvin Harris' "Sweet Nothing" and Jessie Ware's "Wildest Moments."
The song finds Florence Welch moving into classic rock territory. She said the tune along with much of the rest of the album represents a new guitar-driven sound for her. "It's got very loud guitars and that was very fun to record actually," Welch said. "Trying to get exactly the right tone of guitar - I never realised how complicated that is." "It took us forever," she added. "Every day there'd be a different guitar sound. We ended up layering with three different guitar sounds, one on top of the other, in order to create this one song."
This is one of several tracks that Welch wrote for How Big... at Chateau Marmont, which can be found on Sunset Boulevard in West Hollywood. Throughout the years, the hotel has gained recognition as a popular location for rock stars and actors - John Belushi, for instance, died of a drug overdose in one of its garden bungalows. She told NME: "LA is a total dreamland and it played a big part in this record. There is definitely a portal to the underworld. There are two if you're not careful."
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