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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 col...
[Verse]
A lake with no fish
Is the heart of a horse
Named "Cold Air", who, when young
Would run like a storm
[Chorus]
They would say, "Ooh
Ooh-hoo" (Ooh-hoo)
[Verse 2]
I thought I'd traveled a long way
But I had circled the same old sin
[Outro]
Ooh, ooh-hoo, ooh
Ooh-hoo, ooh-hoo
A Horse Named Cold Air was written by Mitski.
A Horse Named Cold Air was produced by Patrick Hyland.
Mitski released A Horse Named Cold Air on Fri Aug 17 2018.
I was writing it on piano and I thought ‘this is it, this is fine, it’s better if it’s sparse.’"