 A year later, Fearless Records approached Rise Against about contributing to the "Punk Goes Acoustic" compilation album, and the band felt that "Swing Life Away would be an appropriate song for the album.The "Punk Goes Acoustic" version of "Swing Life Away" attracted little attention from fans, and McIlrath believed that the song had "died out".When Rise Against signed with Dreamworks Records in late 2003, a Dreamworks executive told the band that they should rerecord the song for their upcoming album, "Siren Song of the Counter Culture", to which the band agreed to.