Rucker said on his record company's website: "I think that's one of the most important songs I've ever written. I wrote it with Frank Rogers and Rivers Rutherford, after we'd just written another song. Frank had on a T-shirt - kind of like Aerosmith's logo; a guy with angels on his shirt. Rivers strummed a chord and said, 'If I had wings.' I said, 'What's that?' and he said, 'I just came up with it' and we said, 'OK, everybody, take your guitars back out…'"

Vince Gill and Alison Krauss sang background vocals on this song. Said Rucker: "They gave me chills. To get in touch with another artist in the pop world, you'd have your manager call their manager. I didn't have to go through any of that. We just called them. We have 38 Grammys between the three of us - and I've got two (laughs)."