 Produced by Chris Hughes and Ross Cullum, who produced "The Hurting", the song utilised sampled voices and rhythms, a burgeoning trend in new wave music in the 1980s.Bassist Curt Smith performs lead vocal on the song.Despite reaching the Top 30, the song was not included on the band's 1992 Greatest Hits album, though both it and the B-side "The Marauders" were later included on the band's 1996 B-sides and rarities collection "Saturnine Martial & Lunatic", and on the 2006 Deluxe Edition reissue of "Songs from the Big Chair".