The first and only Placebo song to feature a didgeridoo, played by drummer Robert Schultzberg, Brian has regularly maintained it's one of the best tracks he's ever written. He tells the story in 2006:

I was living in New York, thinking about moving there instead of living somewhere in France where I had been living and where I was feeling very down. I don't talk a lot of my private life, but it's very well known and very ‘public domain' that I was in a relationship during that time but it didn't work. We really needed to take some time off. So I was in that big city and didn't know anybody. I lost my home, my family and I fell into a very deep depression. We had decided not to talk to each other but I couldn't bear it anymore. I remember I picked up a phone in some phone booth in Broadway and called this person and said “see, I know I'm not supposed to be calling you right now, but I really need to talk to you”. The song is part of the conversation we had over the phone, there's a lot of guilt in that song. “Blind,” included in Meds, is a somewhat alike song. The end of a relationship is kind like death. You have a life with someone and just suddenly, everything stops. The saddest part is that the world goes on and people go on minding their own business, without knowing the pain you feel. It's very interesting for an author to write about that.

The track earned a re-recording in 2008, for the Mexican film Amor, Dolor y Viceversa. This version appears on the 2016 compilation A Place For Us To Dream, and has been released as a digital single.