Don't Understand

Alan has said this song was about his uncles suicide.

I believe this is one of Low's most brutal songs. It is just so... sort-of straightforward, but also, it is slightly cryptic, making it so the vision in your head about this song could be right, though it may be different from another persons' thoughts.

The song feels like it deals with irritation, that is... well, incomprehensible. Something that gets deep in the skin. Powerful to me, at being a six minute song of not understanding.

i never really paid much attention to the lyrics in this song but its always been a favourite of mine.

looking at them now they kind of make me think of someone who has to deal with raising a step child..or an adopted child who has gone back to its natural parents, and how they can only be seen as a burden.