He originally wrote the lyrics on the back of a bus ticket.

[3] As with the majority of the songs on his album, he was involved in the creative writing process.

Michael Osborn wrote in a review for the BBC that the song is "a rich, chugging, rock-tinged little ditty", although he also commented that it is "hardly a quirky experiment lacking in pop sensibilities".

He then goes up to his apartment and arranges to meet his band members for a gig later that day.

They travel to the gig, speeding through a tunnel, but are then held up by traffic, eventually coming to a standstill.