Bush, an English band, got little attention in their homeland but caught fire in America with their 1994 debut album Sixteen Stone. Their sudden success prompted this song, which lead singer Gavin Rossdale calls "an introverted, naval-gazing moment, set to rock music."
In a Songfacts interview with Rossdale, he said: "That was when we just had the most massive success. It's a very destabilizing feeling to go from zero to something, and be torn from life as you know it. It's a beautiful thing because you're being successful and you have these massive crowds, but it's destabilizing. That song was written right after the wave of all that success, and that disconnect from my life as I knew it. My fear of, Would my life stay this way?"
The song opens: Do you feel the way you hate Do you hate the way you feel Rossdale told us regarding these lines: "It was just that thing of committing a private moment to a song, a private moment about needing some perspective, needing some time."
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