 After the Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the transport he was on returned to America, which led Jesse Lacey to consider the duality of both something great happening in his Great Uncle not being deployed whilst "something completely awful [was] happening".The album version of the song adapts parts from the Rudyard Kipling poem, "If—", which Lacey's father had hanging on the wall of his house.The track is playable on the 2009 video game "Guitar Hero 5".