Lyric discussion by scott locke 

I saw the National play live in a small setting a couple years ago and someone yelled out for them to play City Middle.

Matt (who had been drinking red wine out of a bottle the entire night) said, "that's a really beautiful song and these guys play it really, really well, but I just can't because... it makes me too fucking sad."

So take that for what you will.

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