The song's lyrics resemble a telephone call by a young woman to her mother.

The verses detail her experiences with several mundane aspects of her daily life but then the chorus provides an uglier, darker contrast with Bonham screaming the lyrics, leading up to the lines "I'm freezing, I'm starving, I'm bleeding to death, everything's fine!

/ I miss you, I love you..." Bonham said the song is based on her experiences as a people-pleasing young woman calling home.

[5] The song was particularly successful in Australia, where it reached number five on the ARIA Singles Chart,[6] received a gold certification from Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA), and became Australia's 46th best-selling single of 1996.

[10][11] Two music videos were shot for the song and were used on both MTV and VH-1: One video, directed by Jake Scott, was shot for MTV featuring an older woman (Bonham's real life mother[citation needed]) turning on the television on which Tracy's image is singing as the woman proceeds to clean the room.