The track has many of the hallmarks of a OneRepublic hit (our first play summary of it was "stadium pop-rock stomper"), but repeated listens unearth some interesting shifts in their sound.
Lyrically, as Ryan said in the same interview, it’s about an "unnatural, unhealthy level of obsession" with a person. “I know I could lie but I’m telling the truth, wherever I go there’s a shadow of you,” he sings on the sweeping intro, while in the first verse he reveals: “I come alive when I’m close to the madness”. It sounds pretty sinister, but OneRepublic being OneRepublic, it’s also relentlessly catchy and hugely radio friendly (clocking in a just under three minutes!).
In typical quirkly Ryan Tedder fashion, he's described the accompanying music video (directed by Joseph Kahn, no less) as "a bit of a mad kind of unicorn," so keep an eye out for that too.