“My Mystery” is an outtake from Destroyer’s Poison Season sessions that was later released as a single. Said project mastermind Dan Bejar:
We recorded a song called My Mystery a year and a half ago. Kind of a light number, vaguely danceable. Wistful, looking back not unfondly on time spent and dull...
I fell in. I fell hard
I put my notice in at Scotland Yard
And from the suicide towers to the county fair
I chased the girl with that shit in her hair
I woke up in the sand
I told the manager, I told the band
That you can never really ever go home again
Yes, it's as simple as that
I was doing my best in a world full of wreckage
I was doing my impressions of a blind man
When Apocalypse Shadow Walkin takes the stage
And says "Babe, I'll do whatever I can..."
I'll do whatever I can!
You're lost in the lighthouse
You're lost at sea
You're lost in the lighthouse
You're lost at sea
That's my mystery...
Saw you inside of the depressing cafe
Waving at the world walking by
Uranium lights up the sky
Of this particular world...
I've conducted business in a lot of places
Seen people keep death in their wine-sloshed eyes
There's an ocean running deep
A mountain getting high
A river wondering why she's gotta go...
You're lost in the lighthouse
You're lost at sea
That's my mystery...
My Mystery was written by Dan Bejar.
My Mystery was produced by John Collins.
Destroyer released My Mystery on Fri May 06 2016.