Lyric discussion by See mustache 

Cover art for Palms lyrics by Local Natives

This song hits home for me.

For me it's about that impossible space we sometimes find ourselves in after being in love with someone and they have moved on or the timing isn't just right.

But this love isn't emotional only, it's physical and raw. The narrator is consumed...the most telling line for me is: I would rather love Someone I couldn't touch Than give us up

Giving up on that hope, that feeling of being in love, is the hardest thing of all because it is everything we want. Giving up is letting go.

So our narrator dwells, they hold on to that hope...

My favorite song of the album. So beautiful...and a song we can all relate to unfortunately at some point in our life.