It's a song about mauvais-fois. For those who didn't take four years of high school French, that's that feeling that you get when you're lying in bed at night and you're mind fills with all these neurotic possibilities about the ways you've screwed up in the past and the ways that you could screw up again, but ultimately, it's exciting too, because you look at all the different ways your life could go. So it's about excitement mixed with apprehension.
It's a song about mauvais-fois. For those who didn't take four years of high school French, that's that feeling that you get when you're lying in bed at night and you're mind fills with all these neurotic possibilities about the ways you've screwed up in the past and the ways that you could screw up again, but ultimately, it's exciting too, because you look at all the different ways your life could go. So it's about excitement mixed with apprehension.