The song title is perhaps a reference to a quote by Edgar Allan Poe:

That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.

Frank Sacramone comments that the composition of the song was centered around the idea that beauty is sadness. The song is a personification of the anxiety that he felt when he was younger towards how he desired beauty.

The track was recorded at a faster tempo and then was slowed down in production. This was done to produce a “pulling down” feeling to focus on the power of the emotions from the song.