The song offers commentary on the Black Lives Matter demonstrations, systemic racism and MLK's assassination. The song's chorus is the famous King quote, "Our lives begin to end the day that we become silent about things that matter." Nixon recorded his song during quarantine on a backpack recording studio that Thurman gave him. The music teacher drove to Nixon's house to get him the equipment needed to record the song. "[We] followed all the social distancing guidelines, making sure everything was sanitized, and he was able to set up a Logic Pro studio with a decent quality recording mic in his home and take the song all the way to completion," Thurman told BillyPenn.