Songfacts®:

• Springfield wrote this song about his reaction to Mark David Chapman, who shot and killed John Lennon in 2008. In a Songfacts interview with Rick Springfield, he explained: "I was upset that the guy who shot him – there was some talk of him maybe being paroled or something. And I didn’t want that. So I revisited all the anger that I felt when that happened, because I am a huge John fan, and it was just such a waste. So it was just a late reaction to him maybe getting paroled, or talking about some kind of field trip or something for the dickhead."
  
  Springfield added that he refuses to mention Chapman by name out of contempt.
• Springfield wrote this and the other songs on the Venus In Overdrive album with his bass player, Matt Bissonette. The album was issued on New Door Records, which was a change for Springfield, who had been issuing his albums independently. He was hoping the label could help him reach a wider audience, which was getting harder as he got older.