Graveyard Whistling (song)

The song centers on the protagonist's angst from his skepticism toward religious beliefs—particularly in regard to death, mortality, and the existence of an afterlife—which are mainly explored in the first verse. He suggests in the chorus that one can reduce the power of their fears if they stop believing in their credibility. In the second verse, he admits he has been guilty of wrong deeds in the past, potentially implying that he is attempting to bury his own shame from these mistakes. The protagonist later questions whether he will find a sense of wonder in the afterlife, while describing the idea of trying to escape from a "cloud" of his misery.^[1]

George O'Brien of The Line of Best Fit commented that the song possesses "a gently haunting hue", writing that it "builds out of its atmospheric, reverb-heavy, sparse beginnings into a warm subtly infectious chorus that nods to the likes of Radiohead, alt-J and Thirteen Senses". She described Conor Mason's vocals as using a "dulcet falsetto" and stated that he "pours with deep expression out above the wash of colourful layers. It's a vocal, and indeed a track, that begs to be returned to".^[2]