The song, off his 2014 album, Andrew McMahon In The Wilderness, has McMahon giving his little baby girl Cecilia a taste of who he was before she came into this world with lines about "loving girls he barely knew" and traveling "around the world with a punk rock band."

"I wanted to be really candid," McMahon tells Radio.com over the phone from Michigan. "I wanted her to be able to look back and know who her dad was before she was born, the successes and the failures, and for her to know I'd be there for her through the same highs and lows."

McMahon has lived more in his 32 years than most others. He's cafe-crawled around Amsterdam and played Japan over the course of his 15 years making music, first with his high school pop-punk band Something Corporate and then later with his band Jack's Mannequin. He's also a cancer survivor, who was diagnosed in 2005 with acute lymphoblastic leukemia and battled back.

McMahon started writing the song during his wife Kelly's pregnancy as a way to connect with his little one, who he says was an unexpected blessing after going through chemotherapy. But, it wasn't until after Ceclia's birth in February 2014, that lines like "For all the places I have been/ I'm no place without you" began to take on new meaning.

It's something McMahon admits has happened throughout his first year of being a dad, changing the way he makes music--specifically, what time he's making it.