Created in 1985 by Scottish-Canadian Lawrence Gowan. Gowan was born in Scotland, but immigrated to Scarborough Ontario when he was younger. Gowan's career is mostly entirely contained within Canada, with most popular being in Toronto, the epicenter of his career.

This song is one of my favourites of Gowan's, next to (You're a) Strange Animal. The song, from my understanding, is about self respect and finding one's own place in the world by ignoring those who seek to put you down or control you.

I could perhaps be self-projecting those meanings on to the lyrics, but it is what it means to me. I've had to cut people off and I've made moves and decisions that those who love me dearly told me would be mistakes. One such move was moving back home to Canada from the US. The song, to me, speaks to the freedom of taking their reigns of your own life and choosing the shape in which you exist in the world.