The song was released through Kidinakorner and Interscope on May 10, 2023, as the fifth and final single from the band's fifth studio album, Mercury – Acts 1 & 2.
[4] It originally began in Platzman's dome studio and evolved from there with Reynolds' deeply personal lyrics.
[5] The video follows the story of 14-year-old Ukrainian Sasha and features clips of him walking through his home village of Novohryhorivka in the Mykolaiv Oblast, which had been under Russian occupation for five consecutive months.
The video shows houses and buildings destroyed by occupation and urges viewers to donate to United24.
Sasha was invited to an Imagine Dragons concert to show support and unfurl the Ukrainian flag in Warsaw, Poland in August 2023.