It was the band's second single and first top-ten hit from their 1984 album Vital Signs.

I remember soundchecks with Survivor and The Ides of March, and there's no better place to start a jam than on stage.

Everything is miked-up, you're in a good mood, the lights come on, the audience isn't there yet and you start jamming.

I started laying my right hand on the keyboard and coming up with that very sing-song melody.

"[3] Peterik told Songfacts: "Lyrically, I've had that title ever since the CBS convention in 1977 when Sly Stone of Sly & the Family Stone - there were rumors about him being strung out on drugs - he bolts on stage all cleaned up and says, 'I want you to know, people, I am high on you."