1020 AM

Maybe it's written to someone who died or left him at 10:20 AM, and he's remembering them?

Or it's a radio station... I'm a dumbass.

could be either, but you aren't a dumbass.

I think it's a radio station, mainly because the song is AM rather than a.m. Anyways, it's hard to tell what this is about, possibly a criticism of today's popular music (compared to when radio was only AM) or maybe just Spoon's frustration because of their lack of radio play.

i always interpreted it as 10:20 am, the time of day, and thought that it was sort of a morning-after-a-one-night-stand kind of thing. the night meant something to him--he remembers everything she said and did--but maybe he's leaving whatever city she's in and is sort of melancholy about the lost possibility of a relationship.

I've generally thought of it as being about a person who died (though of course it can be interpreted any way you like). The words, like "it starts to sink in" and "you'll be with me still", etc, seem more potent when they're about death.

This is probably really lame but I had a cat a couple years ago that died at almost exactly 10:20 a.m. As I was carrying her out to bury her the words "I carry you out, it starts to sink in" fit entirely too perfectly.

This song is about the death of his grandfather; he found out at 10:20 am. He was very close to him and served as a pallbearer at his funeral, hence the lines, "I carry you out/it starts to sink in."

Spoon has been known to write lyrics about drugs, especially concerning cannabis usage. The time 10:20 is as far away from 4:20 that you can get, being 6 hours away from both 4:20 AM and 4:20 PM. I think this song is about Britt Daniel's pining for that feeling that he cherishes, which is symbolically out-of-reach. I don't necessarily think that Britt is a daily stoner, but he often writes subtle lyrics with the intention of enabling particular groups of people to easily identify with his message.