"The following month, in a follow-up with MTV News, the band revealed that the song was one of their "chick song[s]" off "Ocean Avenue".Ryan Key in discussion of the song, said that rather than rage or mend, the song simply sets out to apologize; The lyric, "Made my mistakes, let you down / And I can't, I can't hold on for too long / Ran my whole life in the ground / And I can't, I can't get up when you're gone", were written in the theme of apologizing.