Sting wrote the song for a beer commercial for Kirin Brewery Company.

The original recording included Eric Clapton on guitar, while other takes feature Bryan Loren instead.

Cash Box called it "an upbeat, lightly funk-tinged number" with "strong vocal work."

and an "unusual but hypnotic rhythm track"[3] In 2004 during the North American dates of Sting's Sacred Love Tour, he was joined by Annie Lennox.

They then re-recorded a version of the song which later appeared on the soundtrack for Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004).

The video was shot in black-and-white and was directed by Mary Lambert, based on the film Orpheus (1950), and includes an appearance by Sting's wife Trudie Styler.

Sting wears a homemade jumper (sweater) in the video based on the Belgian cartoon The Adventures of Tintin.

The video opens with a pan shot that centers on Sting (as the poet Marias) in the jumper.