“This is inspired by a remarkable story from New Zealand. Robert Hewitt, the brother of a very famous rugby player in New Zealand by the name of Norm, was lost at sea for two and a half days, floating in his wetsuit with just a bag of these things called kina, which are seafood. He stayed alive in a freezing cold ocean and was eventually plucked from the ocean and saved at a point where nobody gave him even a half a chance because it was way longer than he was supposed to have lived - to the point where some people thought it was actually a setup.

He described, in the paper, his hallucinations that he had, as he was getting on to the second night, of sitting around the table with his family and his friends and how the image of his wife was what kept him sustained.

It’s a classic tale in a way but I found that quite a haunting image. The lyric just came out for the song based on that, pretty directly. I had the music for a little while before that.”