"[4][6]Lyrically speaking, Wilson stated that the track is "about a very specific event in history, but it also deals with the broader theme of paranoia in the modern age - someone or something is coming up your driveway or in your front garden, and their/its motives are unclear.

[8] Greg Kennelty of Metal Injection stated that the track sounded like something off of Porcupine Tree's records Stupid Dream and In Absentia.

[9] Jordan Blum of Metal Injection stated that the track, along with "Harridan", "Rats Return", and "Walk the Plank" packed "quirky hostilities".

They elaborated stating "Between lights in the sky, scratching at the doors and curses on the land, the sense of apocalyptic interior dread oozes a kind of miasmic gloom not many miles removed from Radiohead's "Climbing Up The Walls.

"[11] Brize Ezell of PopMatters called the track "nervy", stating that it could easily fit right onto something on a recent Pineapple Thief record.