During the course of the song, writer and singer Noah Lennox, a.k.a. Panda Bear, covets "a proper house," "four walls and adobe slats for my girls" and eschews fancy things, values which were culled from his personal life. "It was really just my desire on a basic level to own my own place and kind of provide a safe house for my family and the people I care about," Lennox said. "I thought that was at once a kind of weird materialistic thing but at the same time a noble thing."