Written solely by May, the song was released on 26 January 2009 on Ambassador Records, a sub-label of Universal Music Ireland, and is from her second studio album, Love Tattoo.

During an interview with Gay Byrne on the RTÉ music programme For One Night Only' in 2011, May described the origin of the song, citing "boredom" as the reason for its writing.

A remixed version of the song, mixed by Andy Bradfield, appears as a bonus track on May's second studio album Mayhem, released in September 2010.

The video opens and closes with May doing her make-up in a mirror and her case resting on a copy of Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms.

The music video uses an alternate mix of the song, which is also roughly twenty-one seconds shorter, to accompany the live performance clips.