[2] The song was originally teased in an Instagram post by Johnson about voting in September 2020.

III as well as Johnson's 2018 Santa Barbara Bowl Benefit concert for the 2018 California wildfires.

These books were Mutiny on the Bounty, and Pitcairn's Island by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall from the Men Against the Sea Trilogy.

He kept thinking in his mind about the big decisions and disagreements that would occur in these stories, and comparing them to the division in our country leading up to the 2020 United States presidential election.

[2] The song is a very acoustic based, as Johnson sings the line "Hey what do I do/If the captain is drunk?