Perfect Places

She's tired of searching for something that doesn't exit.

We think the perfect lover is out there, the "one" for us. So we keep looking. We travel the skies, and the seas.

Perfect place isn't necessarily a location or geography in this song, but a person. Sometimes someone can make you feel comfortable, and being around them is like you're home, because they are familiar.

She's tired of emotionless, meaningless hook ups with strangers ("meet somebody, take 'em home). That line is sarcastic, to me. Notice how the next line she calls this act "graceless". Because it is. We fuck people we don't even know, out of some sick pleasure or kink. But she's sick of random casual sex. She wants someone she can count on, something meaningful. She wants to give love to one person. So there's a monogamous theme to the song, which is so rare in contemporary pop music. It's interesting she disguises it in a song about seeking casual sex, when it's really an indictment or criticism of that and the emptiness it creates.

She's used alcohol to self-medicate ("all these nights spent off our faces"). She uses alcohol us liquid confidence, or a tool for seduction. She goes out, she drinks, she scopes out the guys she's around, which one is for me? "Trying to find these perfect places". Remember, the "place" represents a person here.

In the end, a perfect person doesn't exist ("what the fuck are perfect places?") What is a perfect person, anyway? People will always let you down ("All of our heroes fading"). You just have to find someone who's problems are worth working through.