In June 2011 Leslie West 's wife, Jenni, made the difficult decision to permit his doctors to amputate his leg while he was in a coma. She wrote the lyrics for this Still Climbing track, which communicates what the guitarist went through. "I guess you could say, the past two years … I don't need anybody's pity, but I went through a lot of s— and I thought it was a good way of expressing it," he told Ultimate Classic Rock .
