The song was written and composed in 1982 during the "Escape" tour. It is not certain exactly when, or the first time it was performed live. Some sources will claim that the first live performance of the song was in 1982 at the "Day on the Green" concert, where singer Steve Perry told the crowd, "We just wrote this song about two weeks ago." However, bootleg recordings exist of performances at least a month earlier at Chicago's Rosemont Horizon, where Perry also says the song was two weeks old.