This song started out as a blues influenced song with the riff being a bastardised version of Preachin' Blues by Robert Johnson that guitarist Leo Brazil had half learnt at high school and carried around ever since waiting to put into a song. "It was after watching a short documentary about the La Brea Tar Pits that I decided it would be a great subject matter for a Bone Wars song, I often try to free write...pick a starting subject matter and then write for a couple of minutes as near to continuously as possible, decoupling my critical brain and allowing unfiltered words to spill out onto the page. I ended up with a couple of sheets written from the perspective of animals stuck in the sticky tar and facing their demise. From this exercise I ended up with mostly nonsense but also go the hook turn of phrase "their fate it lies down below in the tar pits" that appears in a few forms at the end of each verse."

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Bone Wars are a band who thrive on improvisation and musical chemistry. After a couple of sessions mapping out a rough structure and improvising based on the song they settled on the unconventional structure of having all verses and choruses up front and then allowing themselves the space afterwards to showcase their dynamics by dropping down to almost nothing and then gradually building back up into a frenzy that reflects the crushing suffocation of being sucked into tar before repeating the trick in a smaller condensed form. What we end up with is a short punky rock song followed by a prog influenced jam that recalls early Pink Floyd and other 1970s psychedelia. Stretching to eight minutes this kind of music can't be rushed so strap in and allow the tar to seep into your ears and brain.​​​​

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