Lyric discussion by jsnchen12 

What is a salty carnival kiss?

Well, a kiss would be salty after eating popcorn / pretzels at the carnival. The line makes me think he's looking back to his younger days, as a teenager or something.

That makes sense. Thanks!

a lot of food on the boardwalk at asbury park is salty-popcorn, etc. Carnival refers to the ferris wheel, etc at asbury park. when he was young and hanging/sleeping on the beach ( which is also salty water). This line makes me want to kiss him. I think its the sexiest line he's ever written. Especially if it really is as magnificent as his former girlfriends say!

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