"True Tears of Joy" was co-written by band members John Archer, Doug Falconer, Jack Howard, Robert Miles, Barry Palmer, Mark Seymour, Jeremy Smith, and Michael Waters.
Australian pub rockers Hunters & Collectors released "True Tears of Joy" on 23 November 1992[1] a month after their seventh studio album,[2][3] Cut, which was issued in October.
[2][4][6] "True Tears of Joy" was released as a CD single on White Label/Mushroom Records and, as with the album, was co-produced by Don Gehman and Hunters & Collectors, with Rick Will as the assistant producer.
[8] In the liner notes for the band's compilation album, Natural Selection, Seymour provides the following description for the song; "She's standing at the gate about to depart for Tokyo to pursue dubious employment.
[10][11] Kelly commented that the artists, Donovan and Jimblah, that he recorded the track with in the previous November, together with the producers, Tim Levinson (Urthboy) and Angus Stuart (El Gusto) were "a good little team all in one room".