In 2005, Kevin Martin wrote a song entitled "Stand" with fellow musician and Hiwatts bandmate Space.

Martin and Peter Klett favored the idea and decided the band should tour for its promotion, thus ending their indefinite hiatus.

After a successful tour, bassist Bardi Martin left the band to continue his education, allowing Adam Kury to take his place.

While chemistry did not set in immediately during the writing process, Klett noted that old issues between bandmates were able to gradually subside.

I guess that would be the best thing to say.Candlebox toured extensively in promotion of Into the Sun including the Heritage and Freedom Fest in front of a record crowd.

On August 9, 2010, the band also kicked off a five-show stint overseas performing for U.S. troops at Camp Arifjan in Kuwait and continued on to Iraq.

According to Martin, the song was "inspired by the second elected term of George Bush, and how people didn't figure out the first time around that he's a complete and utter buffoon.