Songfacts®:

• Travis frontman Fran Healy unintentionally captured the feelings of malaise and loneliness of being stuck in COVID-19 lockdown when he wrote this melancholy piano tune before the pandemic even hit. "This one harks back to another song that I wrote called 'Writing To Reach You,' when I say, 'Every day I wake up and it's Sunday.' And then this song says, 'Woke up feeling s--t this morning.' Little did I know I was just about to be around the corner with the pandemic and everyone being on lockdown - this feeling of literally feeling like, 'F--king hell, when is this going to end?'" he told Apple Music.
  
  "And then there's another line, 'Staring at the window, just watching the rain,' that's just this feeling of being in an Edward Hopper painting," he added. "That song is, to me, this feeling of being in one of those paintings. You're in isolation, you're in lockdown - even if it was written before we were all in lockdown. In a funny way, we're all stuck in our bodies. So in a funny way, we are all on lockdown. And we've always been on lockdown and always will. And we're a long time in the ground. So get out there and do what you have to do, and do it well."
• Healy told American Songwriter how his falsetto in the song reflects the longing we all feel. He said: "The long, long, long falsetto note just sounded to me like a little wolf howling by itself. To me that's what singing is. We're all just howling, but in a more sophisticated way. It's that sound that you make when you're longing or need something."
  
  He added: "I guess I was thinking, 'What is that drives people to write songs?' This idea of the thing that you didn't have. I didn't have a dad, and I didn't know until I became a dad myself that I realized how massive that thing is in someone's life. I guess that was a big part of my life that's missing and I’ll never be able to get it back. It's part of that battery that drives me. I think lots of kids out there don't have dads or moms. There are definitely a couple of songs that tune into that."
• This is the closing track on Travis' ninth studio album, which peaked at #5 in the UK. The Scottish band broke through internationally with their sophomore album, The Man Who, in 1999.