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Post Malone focuses during this acoustic ballad on his struggle to keep a relationship together. Can we have a little conversation? Figure it out with no intoxication We carry on, what is our motivation? We're never wrong, how the hell we gonna make it? It is has been suggested that the Syracuse-born artist penned the song during a short split between him and his longtime girlfriend, Ashlen.

Post Malone wrote the song with Andrew Watt, who has also worked with the likes of DJ Snake featuring Justin Bieber ("Let Me Love You"), Kygo & Selina Gomez ("It Ain't Me") and Camila Cabello ("Havana"). Watt recalled the story of the song to Uproxx: "For a while we were calling it 'George,' because it reminded us of George Harrison because of the chords in the song. We met up in Henson studios, this legendary studio in L.A. and sat there with guitars for a while and wrote that song. I think it's somewhere between Oasis and David Bowie, just this weird thing. Then he starts rapping on it. It's just something only Post could do."

The song was recorded with two guitars to create a more expansive sound. Watt played a 1946 Martin O-18 and Post Malone a 1953 Gibson J-45. Watt commented to Genius: "The magic's in two of them together."