He looked up at the ceiling and grinned, which Sean Worral attributed to an audience of rats "running back and forward above his head on some kind of skanky lattice thing suspended from the rafters", meaning he had premiered the song to actual vermin.

Whilst performing on Marc Riley's BBC 6 Music radio show, Smith confirmed the upcoming release of two singles from the album, scheduled for August and November 2008.

Reviewing an unreleased version of the track on one of Tim's cassettes, Sean Kitching of The Quietus called it "a beautiful piece of music, initially serene and eventually epic", comparing it to "In the Neighbourhood" by Tom Waits and the funeral hymn "Morning Has Broken".

[4][5] Kitching noted that the song's opening lyrics — "Think of a way, then always go your own way / Uncustomary evenings, legendary mornings / Louder than drums and softer than a cloud that's been blown away" — were a good "closing summation on a unique life well-lived".

[4] Following its release, He commented that the song was "totally Tim Smith", bringing attention to "the myriad little sonic details that make up the vivid picture it conjures in the listener's mind".