In the summer of 2012, I was visiting my father, who was battling cancer at the time. Near his house in Gloucester, MA, there is an amazing record store called Mystery Train that we would frequent and buy as much vinyl as we could take home. On this particular visit, he wasn't much up for a trip to the record store, but we drove by and I ran inside to pick up a few albums of a very specific artist that I had on my mind. We got back to his home and played those records. This one song came on that had the most gorgeous string and wind section on it, and I told him, "That is the most amazing arrangement I've ever heard, I'm going to sample this song."

When I got back to Brooklyn, I immediately spliced up the song and programmed a beat and played it for Angelica the next day. Upon first listen, she freestyled the first verse, chorus and post chorus. I knew when she ripped through that chorus that we had something very special. After the session, I was really excited and called and told my dad about it. He was really intrigued and said, "please send me this song when you're done with it". He actually did pester me for the song a few more times, but he passed away only several months later. In the months leading up to his passing, I just wasn't able to write much more than I had, so it stayed in our little song vault.

We managed to finish this song in the spring of 2014 with Matt finishing off the writing and programming. Angelica's lyrics regarding the power of friendships really seemed to resonate with the situation, because when the song was conceived, there seemed to be very little comfort to be found in life. We all lean on each other in the toughest of times and this song was literally that helping hand.