This ethereal song is something unlike none other, speaking of broken families in a way that you can't help but sympathize with. The way the persona sings of their father, who is "seeing double", either a direct reference to the imbibement of too much alcohol or perhaps an affair with another woman, has the mother of the persona go:
My mother said to me
That I would get in trouble
Our father won't come home
Cause he is seeing double
Genius
Lindsay Zoladz notes that of the album, Bloom, this song, "the epic "Wild"-- one of their best songs yet-- conjures teenage feelings of boredom, broken homes ("Our father won't come home, 'cause he is seeing double"), and the inordinate amounts of faith placed in the things that take someone out of those particular hells ("That's when your car pulls up, its hood is black and gleaming"). Legrand's ethereal contralto huffs so much life into her lines that even lyrics that look plain on the page take flight. Throughout, Legrand and Scally sound in perfect sync: his nimble riffs punctuate her long, drawn-out notes to add depth and layered rhythm to the tracks."
Pitchfork
Considering that this song is over 5 minutes long, it is no wonder Lindsay considers it not only an epic of length, but an epic of storytelling because as the final line goes "the past is what will catch you", suggesting that the persona's past will come for them in the future, regardless of whether they escape this home, broken as it may be.
How would they face it?
Go on pretending.
