It was included in the limited edition Singleactiongreen box set released in November 1989.

The song was released as a single only in the US but failed to chart on the Billboard Hot 100.

The song was written by Michael Stipe about Mike Mills.

However, Mills did not find this out until a concert in the late 1990s, when Stipe introduced the song as being about him.

[3] The video for the song was created by a young filmmaker named Eric Darnell, who had recently graduated from the CalArts program in experimental animation and who went on to co-direct the mainstream computer-animated features Antz and Madagascar.