This song is one of three new tracks included on Northern Irish alternative rock band Snow Patrol's compilation album, Up to Now. It served as the lead single from the collection.
The song was originally penned by frontman Gary Lightbody for Gwen Stefani, who passed on it. Pussycat Doll Nicole Scherzinger picked it up for her solo CD, then when that album got shelved, Lightbody reclaimed it. The Snow Patrol vocalist told The Denver Post that when the band's UK label first heard the track, they couldn't believe he hadn't kept it for his own band: "They said, 'You gave that to somebody else? What the (expletive) were you doing?' And so we reclaimed it for ourselves. It was originally a ballad, but now it's far from that."
The song is a surprising departure for the band, in that it is an electronic-infused, '80s-influenced track. "It's one of those songs that we've always had in us," said Lightbody to The Denver Post. "I've loved dance music since I was an 18-year-old kid going to nightclubs, so it was bound to happen at some point. But I'm surprised it took me 15 years."
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