This song might actually be my favorite song that I’ve written. For the inspiration I would explain perhaps the scenery I wrote it in: I was isolated in a very large, very cold old farm house in upstate New York. I was buried up to my waist in snow any time I went outside. I had moved all the instruments to one small corner of the house, because I had become afraid of the dark, being alone all the time. I was drinking too much whiskey. I had a fire roaring by my side all day and night, so it was deliriously hot inside that room. I wrote it in the middle of the night or probably the early morning in the dark. I was both losing my mind and at the same time quite content!

– Zach Condon in a 2022 Reddit AMA