In this song, Mitski uses the metaphor of an aging racehorse to tell the story of someone who, looking back on their life, finds that they’ve just “circled the same old sin”.

This song encapsulates the album a lot – a horse that used to be young, used to be vibrant, but now is sort of still and cold and old."

The song is also reminiscent of Mitski’s bio on Bandcamp, which reads:

Her music is like an aging racetrack greyhound; graceful, but still kind of sad."