Songfacts®:

• Richard Marx wrote this song about his father, Dick Marx, who died in a car accident in 1997 at age 73. Richard was very close to his father, a talented musician who wrote many popular jingles including "Double your pleasure, double your fun" for Wrigley's Doublemint gum.
  
  "It was like he was there in the room, guiding me to write this song," said Marx. "I had written a few songs over the years, processing it - the grief of losing him. Because I lost him very suddenly and very tragically, and we were really, really close. The song 'Through My Veins' came after these other songs, but it was almost like the other songs were the lead-up to it. That one said exactly what it needed to say, and it was very therapeutic for me and for a lot of other people who have suffered losses similar to that."
• The Emotional Remains album got a limited release, but this song picked up a lot of steam thanks to live performances that made their way to YouTube. "I have done it live many, many times, and I have had so many people - on social media and right up to my face - that thank me for writing that song," Marx said in a Songfacts interview.
• Matt Scannell of Vertical Horizon played guitar on this track.