Marling is addressing a former lover who she refuses to allow back into her life. Oh, my hopeless wanderer You can't come in You don't live here anymore Go, some creepy conjurer Who touched the rim Whose hands are in the door Hands up those of you who spotted the reference to Marcus Mumford, whom Marling once dated. The "Hopeless Wanderer" in the song's opening line is also the title of a Mumford & Sons song.
Marling likens her refusal of her former lover to repelling some kind of supernatural intruder. "Yeah, it's like an incantation," she told Q Magazine. "I read Yeats' book about his wife channeling an entity and I was feeling that vibe."
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