Lead singer Burton Cummings says that he wrote the lyrics to this song after getting a very severe case of sunburn while in Hawaii. He composed the track with guitarist Kurt Winter, who joined the band for the Share The Land album following the departure of Randy Bachman.
The version released as a single has a slightly different mix.
The spoken section at the end ("They gaped upon me with their mouths...") was taken from Psalm 22 in The Bible.
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