The first single from Biffy Clyro's Ellipsis album, this was premiered as Zane Lowe's World Record on Beats 1 radio on March 21, 2016. Frontman Simon Neil said the song "is about us being wolves on a patch and if you come onto that patch, we'll tear you limb-from-limb."
Neil told NME that the song was inspired by a David Attenborough documentary, "about these wolves who live on a patch of land, and whoever comes onto it, they're basically fair game." He added: It's an attack song: it's me saying, 'Don't f--k with what we do' and sticking the fingers up to the people who said our band wouldn't last very long. I'm quite a negative person generally, although it's not normally a motivator for me, but there's definitely a few songs on this record directed towards people who've let us down, ripped us off, or f---ed us over."
The song starts with some chatter and the band laughing at something, before somebody shouts out "record this." Neil explained: "Because we sort of wanted to devolve with this album, we started recording everything. We were recording crickets outside our window every night. We recorded couples having arguments in the street, which is especially hilarious in LA." "It was an influence that came from listening to hip-hop," he added, "the textures, the atmospherics, the weird sounds."
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