This song includes the lyric: "I'm thinking 'what was my password?' as the vultures land." Digital Spy asked the band what the thought process was behind that? Guitarist Alex Robertshaw replied: "It's a throw back to the same idea he had when [Jon Higgs] wrote 'MY KZ….' actually. You know, you have all these mundane things in your life and there's a lot of horrible stuff going on around you, and how do you rise above it?" Drummer Michael Spearman added: "I think it's a good question when you have 24-hour news and you're bombarded with all these stories from around the world. If you actually take all of that in, then you're just going to be depressed. To some degree you do have to put up some barriers and have your own life. It's where that balance lies and how you do that without being selfish or just being a wreck."
The song was inspired in part by the murder of British aid worker Alan Hanning in Syria. Vocalist Jonathan Higgs told Q magazine: "When they killed Alan Henning in the desert, I really lost it and thought 'What now.'"
Everything Everything titled their third studio album after this song. Bass guitarist Jeremy Pritchard explained to HMV.com: "It sums everything up nicely because it's multi-layered, it's the notion of transcendence, of trying to live a good life and then it's also talking about extremists and those who commit horrendous acts to try and get to a higher plane."
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