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• IshmaelpequodI got my own interpretation of the song I wrote while listening to it without reading the interpretations online. I think it's pretty spot on. Read it below if you'd like.
  
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  The Mets is a New York baseball team of which Julian is admittedly a longtime fan. However, this is a song about lost love, a recurring theme for Julian, and the only link between the Mets and this lost love song is nostalgia. Although it is not specified who the subject the narrator refers to is—since it remains open—there are clearly two interlocutors: one to whom the narrator speaks directly, and another referred to in the third person.
  
  First 2 lines – The song features several expressions that can be interpreted abstractly, and the rhythm is erratic, a characteristic of the band, but it's because the narrator himself is nervous. There are three people involved: the narrator, the person he is directly addressing—possibly a former lover—and the third person, likely that person’s current boyfriend, who left them alone for a while.
  
  The first lines talk about the boyfriend who left and is not coming back.
  
  Lines 3 to 8 – Warning that he is an unreliable narrator and that he will tell his own version of the story, he begins recounting it; however, knowing he won’t be believed, he suggests that the interlocutor, his ex, look up what really happened and form her own opinion.
  
  Lines 9–10 - refer to the narrator himself sitting down to tell his story while evaluating the interlocutor in order to decide what to say.
  
  Lines 13–17 – With his life already made, he has no worries. His great treasure awaits him just down the street—whether this treasure is something real, like a woman, or something monetary and valuable. He’s going to leave and really won’t care, because he has it all—he won’t be the one losing out.
  
  Lines 18–19 – Referring back to the third person mentioned at the start of the song, Julian shows that even though this person currently seems to control and dominate him, it’s only a matter of time before Julian strikes and reverses the situation.
  
  Lines 20–26 – Julian admits that he missed the girl he’s speaking with, but didn’t realize it. He is undecided whether he prefers to remain alone when he leaves the room where they’re talking, or if he wants this person to come with him.
  
  Lines 27–31 – The current boyfriend is returning soon, and Julian guesses that he’ll just grab his phone, uninterested in the woman and oblivious to the conversation and everything else that’s happened. This encounter is a revendouz between Julian and his ex-girlfriend while her current boyfriend is away—it isn't right, but it isn't wrong either.
  
  Lines 31–35 – Something about this being the last meeting and her last chance to return to him. He knows her and reads her like the back of his hand, and knows she will come back.
  
  Lines 35–40 – As the song nears its end, Julian tells her that the time they spent together, the wrongs he did, the wrongs she did, their flaws and behaviors—all of it is in the past and should remain there. Time has swallowed the pain. Now, only the essence of what they are in the present remains, in its purest form, ready for a new start. This is a clear attempt to get her to come back to him. The silence between them is agonizing, and even though she thought everything between them was over, the silence says otherwise.

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