It first appeared on the band's 1979 LP Sheep Farming in Barnet, and a live version of the song was subsequently released as a single in 1980 by Safari Records to promote the concert album Toyah!

The song was written by Toyah Willcox, Joel Bogen and Peter Bush.

It was originally recorded and released in 1979 on Toyah's first album, Sheep Farming in Barnet, produced by Steve James and Keith Hale.

Willcox explained that the song is "about the second coming of Christ"[1] and later added that it is also about "the return of an alien that can travel through time dimensions, therefore, people living in the gravitational pole of planet Earth are gonna age quicker.

They were later included on the 2005 compilation album The Safari Singles Collection Part 1: 1979–1981, and on the 2006 re-issue of Toyah!