The music video, directed by Mark Pellington, features students from Needham B. Broughton High School's Class of 1975 and compares the photographs from their yearbook, with how they look and have aged since then.

Mike Connell said it "was pretty much just another failed relationship song" that took influence from older bands such as the Byrds and Big Star to more contemporary artists including Echo & the Bunnymen, R.E.M., the Replacements and Teenage Fanclub.

Connell was living in a one-bedroom apartment in his hometown of Raleigh, North Carolina when he began writing the song in early 1991, and he struggled for months to finish the lyrics.

Connell remained grateful that the record label did not attempt to influence his writing, as "at the height of the grunge era, 1993, they sure as hell would not have suggested that we come up with an acoustic-based, mid-tempo snoozer.

"[7] The song reached Europe two years later when A&R representatives from the Intercord label requested to issue the album Ring in Germany.

[10] A reviewer from Music Week rated it three out of five, adding, "Commercially alternative with a capital C, this laid-back, rootsy, countrified single drifts through the ears pretty agreeably.

"[5] John Robinson from NME declared it as "an already near-classic AOR swoon which finds the redoubtable Peele, his quaintly named chums Steve Potak, Doug, George, and the brothers Connell sifting through their high school graduation year books and checking the sideburns.

[27] The accompanying music video for the song was directed by American film director, writer, and producer Mark Pellington.

It was shot at Needham B. Broughton High School in the band's hometown Raleigh, North Carolina in 1993, and features members of the Class of 1975, juxtaposing yearbook pictures with footage of the same people as they appeared in 1993.