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Speaking to NME, songwriter and guitarist Serge Pizzorno explained the background to the song's self–referential lyrics: "It's about writing, really. Going to those depths. Anyone who's worked as hard as us to create something, you get to a point where you don't know who you are anymore and you can literally feel your f---ing head's gonna cave in. But that's the point – you only get good art when you put yourself through the mangle."

Pizzorno described the song's Acid House sound as "a nod back to growing up. Keith Richards always goes on about Chuck Berry and John Lee Hooker, and that's where he came from. We came from (hardcore rave DJs) Slipmatt and Top Buzz. So doing a tune like this is like us doing a blues track with a slide, like the Stones used to."