Joseph Williams and Steve Lukather share lead vocals on the song and co-wrote it with Jeffery CJ Vanston.

Williams stated that the opening lines of the song rebuked sensationalist news coverage that he believes is responsible for instilling fear amongst the public.

The bass was originally played by Leland Sklar using his fingers, "which just sounded huge" according to Steve Porcaro.

Porcaro contributed some keyboard ideas that were later scrapped, including a string-line on verse two and a synth solo.

This keyboard was doubled with a Logic ES2 synth, "which has this great pitch-bend range that’ll go down three, four, or five octaves" according to Porcaro.