On a Slow Night Lyrics

Lyric discussion by indignity 

Cover art for On a Slow Night lyrics by Metric

i think this song is about a friend who become a model. she thinks that her friend was prettier, and more interesting when she was normal so to speak.

"That catalogue replaced the fine mind behind your face" - The industry has made her boring and unintellegent.

"Your hat was just a hat " - It was just a normal hat; not a gucci or prada hat. She has been taken over by fasion hierarchy.

The rest is more or less self-explanitory.