Songfacts®:

• Young The Giant frontman Sameer Gadhia calls this song "A shedding of trauma, at least in the verses."
  
  "It's where that song really took shape," he told Bluntmag. "And having these individual experiences of two bodies, two things that pass in the night that are going through the same thing, but are so separate from one another. It's one of those songs from the record that really is surreal and allows the listener to have their own experience in it."
• This was one of the first songs the band recorded for their Victory Garden album, and it set the tone. "The floodgates really opened for this whole writing experience at the first session," guitarist Jacob Tilley said on the Off The Record Podcast. "We went up to Idyllwild, and just took the first night to break bread and reconnect as brothers again. But it was when we were in the studio in the first sessions, 'Bitter Fruit' and 'Ships Passing' came out of that first writing retreat."
  
  "The Young The Giant writing experience, I don't think we ever go in initially with the theme, but it reveals itself, and that's just through perseverance and pushing through," he added. "But for some reason in these writing retreats, the songs just showed up. We'd leave every writing session with two or three ideas, and four sessions later we had the whole record."