[2] According to Alex Robert Ross of Noisey, "Forgiveness" is "a palpitating bit of dark-pop, full of claustrophobic lyrics, built on this line: "Four walls holding me / Cold eyes haunting me.""
He later noted, "It's difficult not to read that as a chunk of autobiography and a comment on Ethan Kath, whom Glass has accused of a pattern of sexual, physical, and emotional abuse towards her while the two were in Crystal Castles."
Dazed described the song as "an industrial-pop thumper driven by a chugging electronic bassline.
It is a dark, lo-fi video in which Glass writes the lyrics to the song in lipstick across various mirrors, before smudging the words at the end.
Those scenes are interspersed with footage of her playing live with her band, and being mostly submerged in a pool of water.