The song was inspired by a comment Burke overheard at a market. "The lady behind me in line was watching people purchase large quantities of items and said 'Hmm, shopping for the apocalypse'. So being a musician the little bell in my head went off…that would be a good song title! The only problem I had writing this song was deciding how many verses to have. It could have gone on forever so I kept it at 8 verses and finished the song.” Burke did the vocals and is playing all the instruments except the drums which he programmed.