This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
Karen, take me to the nearest famous city middle where they hang the lights
Where it's random and it's common versus common, la la la
Karen, take me to the nearest famous city middle where they hang the lights
Where it's random and it's common versus common, la la la
I got 500 in twenties, and I've got a ton of great ideas
I'm really worked up
I'm on a good mixture, I don't wanna to waste it
I'm on a good mixture, I do not wanna waste it
I wanna go gator around the warm beds of beginners
I'm really worked up
Karen, take me to the nearest famous city middle where they hang the lights
Where it's random and it's common versus common, la la la
Karen, take me to the nearest famous city middle where they hang the lights
Where it's random and it's common versus common, la la la
I have weird memories of you wearing long red socks and red shoes
I have weird memories
I have weird memories of you pissing in a sink, I think
I have weird memories of you
I wanna go gator around the warm beds of beginners ?
I'm really worked up
I want to go gator around the warm beds of beginners
I'm really worked up
Karen, take me to the nearest famous city middle where they hang the lights
Where it's random and it's common versus common, la la la
Karen, take me to the nearest famous city middle where they hang the lights
Where it's random and it's common versus common, la la la
I have weird memories of you wearing long red socks and red shoes
I have weird memories
I have weird memories of you pissing in a sink, I think
I have weird memories of you
Parking your car, you said "I'm overwhelmed"
You were thinking out loud, you said "I'm overwhelmed"
You were parking your car, you said "I'm overwhelmed"
You were thinking out loud, you said "I'm overwhelmed"
You said "I think I'm like Tennessee Williams"
I wait for the click, I wait, but it doesn't kick in
I think I'm like Tennessee Williams
I wait for the click, I wait, but it doesn't kick in
I have weird memories of you wearing long red socks and red shoes
I have weird memories
I have weird memories of you pissing in a sink, I think
I have weird memories of you
I have weird memories of you
Where it's random and it's common versus common, la la la
Karen, take me to the nearest famous city middle where they hang the lights
Where it's random and it's common versus common, la la la
I got 500 in twenties, and I've got a ton of great ideas
I'm really worked up
I'm on a good mixture, I don't wanna to waste it
I'm on a good mixture, I do not wanna waste it
I wanna go gator around the warm beds of beginners
I'm really worked up
Karen, take me to the nearest famous city middle where they hang the lights
Where it's random and it's common versus common, la la la
Karen, take me to the nearest famous city middle where they hang the lights
Where it's random and it's common versus common, la la la
I have weird memories of you wearing long red socks and red shoes
I have weird memories
I have weird memories of you pissing in a sink, I think
I have weird memories of you
I wanna go gator around the warm beds of beginners ?
I'm really worked up
I want to go gator around the warm beds of beginners
I'm really worked up
Karen, take me to the nearest famous city middle where they hang the lights
Where it's random and it's common versus common, la la la
Karen, take me to the nearest famous city middle where they hang the lights
Where it's random and it's common versus common, la la la
I have weird memories of you wearing long red socks and red shoes
I have weird memories
I have weird memories of you pissing in a sink, I think
I have weird memories of you
Parking your car, you said "I'm overwhelmed"
You were thinking out loud, you said "I'm overwhelmed"
You were parking your car, you said "I'm overwhelmed"
You were thinking out loud, you said "I'm overwhelmed"
You said "I think I'm like Tennessee Williams"
I wait for the click, I wait, but it doesn't kick in
I think I'm like Tennessee Williams
I wait for the click, I wait, but it doesn't kick in
I have weird memories of you wearing long red socks and red shoes
I have weird memories
I have weird memories of you pissing in a sink, I think
I have weird memories of you
I have weird memories of you
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very stream-of-consciousness lyrics, I get the picture of someone who just wants to go out and numb themselves on alcohol or whatever and turn their brain off, but for whatever reason it's one of those nights when things just don't happen, 'click', and he ends up thinking about stuff even more than before, but in drunken random snippets like the odd memories. I've never heard of the phrase 'go gator' either so I can't offer anything. I adore the 'la da de da da da' chorus at the end; it's so spooky, and yet has this kind of monotonous feeling (compare to one of their other 'la de da' lines in 'Racing like a Pro') that they convey so well in their songs. Wanting to rise above the mundane, or at least escape it for a while, not succeeding very well. I guess that part is also reminiscent of drunken wordless slurring or just lack of inspiration (not on The National's part! just of the narrator, can't even be bothered to try and string a sentence together any more so just hums along). Meh, I'm rambling. Love the song anyway, very melancholy.
I would assume that 'go gater around the warm beds of begginers' referes to having sex with inexperienced women. Go gater alliterates, it also sounds very close to go getter (or get her). Gater is short for aligator, the Title of the album and I would assume is a good example of an aggressive animal, whos behaviour mimiks the amoral antics of a frustrated male who wants a collection of brief hits (drink, drungs, girls) whilst intentionally or unintentionally destroying all that is innocent