| The National – I Need My Girl Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| Yeah I'm pretty skeptical that this is a song being sung from the perspective of a teenager with references to grades... IMO it is an older man (30's/40's perhaps, which would make sense considering that's the age of the Berninger who wrote the song in the first place) referencing his younger self, but at the very least it's clear that this is someone who has been away from something for a significant period of time and is now returning/reminiscing. The whole song is "remember this... remember that... I know I was a lot of things then..." I don't pretend to have the answers, but I see his opening line "I am good, I am grounded" as acknowledgement that he's doing fine now and has done well in life (or that he's trying to convince himself of that), BUT he's still missing/longing for for an old relationship, a girl from the past who he has never stopped loving, who he still feels lost without, etc... | |
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