Songfacts®:

• This song is about duplicity and fading trust in a relationship. The Weeknd knows what is in his girl's mind:
  
  It's a lie, a lie
  I catch you every time
  In your lust, your lust
  Every time you close your eyes
• The first two lines of the chorus borrow from The Romantics' 1983 hit "Talking In Your Sleep." It then ends with a sample of Tears For Fears' "Pale Shelter".
  
  Romantics guitarist Mike Skill told Billboard magazine that he enjoys the "futuristic, electronica, techno" flavor of The Weeknd's song. "What's cool is he does a little bit of his own melody on the verse and the chorus," he said.
  
  "It's good," Skill added. "From what I can tell, I think it's just a lot of the chorus in the end and he doesn't follow the melody that we use. He kind of adds his own melody. It's kind of a mash-up. Kind of a jam on top of a groove."
• The song supposedly started as a country ballad inspired by Dolly Parton and Conway Twitty.
• The Weeknd told Zane Lowe on his Beats 1 show this is his favorite song on the Starboy album.
• The Weeknd tried to find different registers that he hadn't sung in before for Starboy. He told Billboard magazine that he sang "a lot of low stuff" on songs like this one "almost like Toni Braxton."
  
  The Weeknd added: "On 'Secrets,' I'm a different person. I've played it for people, and they have no idea it's me."
• The eerie music video was directed by Pedro Martin-Calero marking his first collaboration with The Weeknd The clip was filmed at the University of Toronto Scarborough and the Toronto Reference Library and co-stars The Weeknd's fellow Canadian singer Black Atlass as the mystery woman's other lover.