I don't really think about having had a hard life. It was just my life, and it's all I knew. It made me who I am - all the good and bad - and it's where all of the songs on Here For The Party came from. I've lived them all.

This song was intended to be the lead-off single to a fourth studio album but it failed to reach the Top 40 and the album was delayed.  2 on the Australian country charts (behind Kasey Chambers) and the top 50 of the Australian charts. It also reached No.

The song served as the lead-off single of her debut album Here for the Party. Wilson followed this album one year later with All Jacked Up the title track of which became the highest-debuting single for a female country artist upon its 2005 release.