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On the 11 May 2006 episode of Loveline, Ville Valo confirmed that the song was inspired by skateboarder Brandon Novak, who blamed his heroin addiction on a need to, as he put it, "kill the loneliness".
The instrumentation is performed by notable heavy metal musicians, including Faith No More’s Billy Gould, H.I.M.‘s Ville Valo, Anathema’s Danny Cavanagh and Carcass members Bill Steer and Ken Owen.