Lyric discussion by alovelyfadeout 

Cover art for On The Low lyrics by Hope Sandoval and the Warm Inventions

helplessness. and accepting that you will always have feelings for someone, despite that they have moved on and there's no point to keeping a light on for them anymore. it's like accepting a personal flaw, the way she sings it and the beat suggest that it's something she lives with and has come to terms that she will probably live with it forever and that makes her a fool but it's no different than any other habit or flaw that we form in the course of our lives--when we're used to something and things change sometimes we keep acting as if they never did.