According to the band's vocalist Brandon Flowers, the idea for the title of the song and album came when he was in the desert and saw a storm coming his way: "I thought 'wonderful, wonderful' and I was able to use it in a song that I wrote with Mark, our bass player, and it ended being an important part of the record.
I started it with Mark, our bass player, and he's more a minor key type of a guy and he brought that out of me."
It was composed by Brandon Flowers, Mark Stoermer, Ronnie Vanucci Jr. and Jacknife Lee, who was also responsible for producing the song.
[10] Mark Savage of BBC News said the song is "built around a wonderfully menacing bassline with Flowers in full ranting preacher mode".
[11] Musically, Stereogum's Pranav Trewn opined the song is a "fascinating swirl of influences that expands The Killers' palette for once not by reaching up for bigger choruses and grander gestures, nor by dressing old Springsteen affectations in a glam moonlight, but rather through pushing outward the range of sounds in their arsenal.