The single was the first to feature a music video by the artist in three years, and tells the story of John Killick's escape from Silverwater Prison in Sydney with the assistance of his girlfriend Lucy Dudko.

Tim Levinson (known professionally as Urthboy) first constructed the beat to Long Lound Hours on a plane while traveling between cities.

Shortly afterwards, Levinson spent a week in the National Film and Sound Archives of Canberra research Australian events to find inspiration for a new song.

This was changed when Levinson found inspiration in the story of a "40 year old female librarian with no criminal record hijacking a chopper at gunpoint and flying into maximum security Silverwater gaol to rescue her lover".

[3] The song tells the story of Lucy Dudko (from her perspective), the Russian-born woman that hijacked a helicopter over Sydney and forced the pilot at gunpoint to land on the oval of the Silverwater Correctional Complex to aid in the escape of her lover John Killick, who was being held in remand for armed robbery.