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Incomprehensible
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Incomprehensible was released on September 5, 2025 by 4AD as a part of the album Double Infinity
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OVERVIEW

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Credits

PERFORMING ARTISTS
Big Thief
Big Thief
Performer
Adrianne Lenker
Adrianne Lenker
Vocals
Alena Spanger
Alena Spanger
Vocals
Buck Meek
Buck Meek
Guitar
Hannah Cohen
Hannah Cohen
Vocals
James Krivchenia
James Krivchenia
Drums
Joshua Crumbly
Joshua Crumbly
Bass Guitar
June McDoom
June McDoom
Vocals
Laraaji
Laraaji
Zither
Mikel Patrick Avery
Mikel Patrick Avery
Percussion
Mikey Buishas
Mikey Buishas
Musician
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Adrianne Lenker
Adrianne Lenker
Songwriter
PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING
Dom Monks
Dom Monks
Mixing Engineer
Matt Colton
Matt Colton
Mastering Engineer

Lyrics

[Chorus]
Incomprehensible
Incomprehensible
Incomprehensible, let me be
[Verse 1]
Highway 17, cotton candy rain
Driving with my lover, we missed our plane
So we added on the hours to see the lupine flowers
Way up past the border, we blew through Thunder Bay
The pine trees are narrow, a billion broken arrows
The ravens and the crows, robins and the sparrows
All across Ontario, static on the stereo
Went swimming in the lake, Old Woman Bay
Traveling with some stuff, I left when I was a kid
Mr. Bear and the wooden box I hid
Full of broken gadgets that mean nothing now
The only thing I'll keep are the letters and the photographs
In two days, it's my birthday, and I'll be thirty-three
That doesn't really matter next to eternity
But I like a double number, and I like an odd one, too
And everything I see from now on will be something new
[Verse 2]
I'm afraid of getting older, that's what I've learned to say
Society has given me the words to think that way
The message spirals, don't get saggy, don't get gray
But the soft and lovely silvers are now falling on my shoulder
My mother and my grandma, my great-grandmother, too
Wrinkle like the river, sweeten like the dew
And as silver as the rainbow scales that shimmer purple blue
How can beauty that is living be anything but true?
So let gravity be my sculptor, let the wind do my hair
Let me dance in front of people without a care
Let me be naked alone, with nobody there
With mismatched socks and shoes and stuff stuffed in my underwear
[Chorus]
Incomprehensible, let me be
Incomprehensible, let me be
[Outro]
Incomprehensible, let me be
Written by: Adrianne Lenker

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