Heat Lightning

In this R&B-influenced slow jam, Mitski is wide awake at 4 a.m. contemplating her emotions as heat lightning flashes outside her window. She told Pitchfork the song is about insomnia and giving up - "but in a good way."

The track ties in with the album's theme of surrender. "I needed love songs about real relationships that are not power struggles to be won or lost," she explained in a press release. "I needed songs that could help me forgive both others and myself. I make mistakes all the time. I don't want to put on a front where I'm a role model, but I'm also not a bad person. I needed to create this space mostly for myself where I sat in that gray area."

She told Pitchfork how the tune evolved with the help of her producer, Patrick Hyland, saying, "Initially the whole song basically sounded like the first half of it, but something didn't feel right. It just felt boring. And then Patrick [Hyland] came up with the idea of having it depart into this whole new sound. We drew inspiration from Prince in a little bit more of and R&B feel to it."