The song gained exposure after being featured as the opening theme to The WB/The CW teen drama series One Tree Hill, and it was released as a radio single on February 17, 2004.

It peaked at number 10 in the United States in 2005 and became a top-20 hit in Australia, Canada, the Netherlands, Norway, and Sweden.

[citation needed] The song's music video follows the message of the lyrics, featuring a girl investigating her high school peers while they are frozen in time, and she eventually decides to be herself.

[2] Gavin DeGraw wrote the song as a message to adolescents, encouraging them to be themselves and to not let outside factors change their personalities.

[3] Musically, the track is written in the key of C minor and proceeds at a moderately slow tempo of 76 beats per minute.