The song came to Rexha while she was drowning her sorrows after a breakup with some shots at Johnny Utah’s country bar in New York. “I just wrote it about a guy who didn’t know if he wanted to be with me or his ex, so he told me that he couldn’t be with me because he didn’t want to make a mistake,” the New York native explained to MTV News. “So he treated me like an option, so I left him like a choice.”