Composer Robert Smith has said that the song "was a short poetic attempt at condensing my impression of the key moments in L'Étranger (The Stranger) by Albert Camus".
O compositor, Robert Smith, afirmou que a canción foi "un leve intento poético de condensar as miñas impresións sobre os momentos clave da novela L’Étranger" (de Albert Camus).