Some Kind of Love

Album: Wonderful Wonderful (2017)
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Songfacts®:

  • Brandon Flowers wrote this song for his wife, Tana Mundkowsky, who suffers from PTSD (Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder) as a consequence of traumas experienced in her childhood.

    The Killers frontman told Rolling Stone that when Tana first heard the song, it reduced her to tears. "It's really emotional," he said. "I played that for her, and she just sobbed "
  • The song is based around a motif from Brian Eno's 1983 track "An Ending (Ascent)."

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