Houston explains the background to the song like this: "I was going, going, and going—trying to do all these amazing things and achieve goals—but in that I had lost what truly made me great; the foundation: what made me, me. At the end of every night, with everything that I had—money, success, achievements and an amazing family—there was a real sadness of what it all mattered to? The point comes where people realise it takes much greater things, something truly monumental to change it. To have that heart transformed only comes though something much greater."