This song was written about the evening of Bastille Day 2016, when a cargo truck was deliberately driven into crowds of people on the Promenade des Anglais in Nice, France by an ISIS terrorist. It resulted in the deaths of 86 people.

“I didn’t want to sing about the actual event because that would be wrong and inappropriate. But I saw the palm trees, and I know what it’s like to walk down a beautiful seafront with the warm wind, with children around you and families around you, watching fireworks go off. We all know that feeling when you’re on holiday. It’s a very evocative, sensuous experience. The sultry night-time seafront.

But there are bodies strewn in the road. And the shock of seeing dead bodies in that environment, caused by another member of the human race, is something that stayed with me. I just tried to depict some human kind of story in it, and make the music slightly woozy and otherwordly. I hope there’s a sense of humanity in it, a sense of hope. But also: what next? There’s always a different gun, a different bomb."

At the end of the song, Marr takes an optimistic stance in the light of overwhelming tragedy. “Come the glory,” he sings. “Listen/We’re chosen/We’re chosen.” “It focuses on the same two characters that began the album in ‘Rise,‘” he says. “It was important to me that I end with a sense of idealism, though it’s interesting to me that I put it in a song that was inspired by terrorist activity.”