For Reasons Unknown

Album: Sam's Town (2006)
Charted: 53
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Songfacts®:

  • This song was written by The Killers on the road, while they were touring with Louis XIV. Flowers recalled to NME: "It was written really quickly, and it's got a real urgency about it because of that."
  • The song was recorded on Louis XIV's bus and Flowers plays bass on it whilst the band's usual bassist Mark Stoermer supplied the guitar work. It's the only song on any Killers record where Flowers plays bass.

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