The place chosen in the lyrics of The Alcott has a precise meaning: it’s a location you probably reach while traveling, which means that your life may be dragged by other priorities at this moment. I’d written all that side of it and Aaron sent it to Taylor Swift right away and I think she jumped right into the role of the other voice, the other perspective….It sets a scene of a person with a notebook writing in a bar…and she fit right into that spot.”
“It very much is a perspective of one person sort of coming to try to reconnect with the other person in a hotel bar. The concept of meeting in a hotel bar has been explicitly explained by The National’s frontman Matt Berninger on the Zane Lowe Show:
In the lyrics, a man and a woman, in love with each other, sing about their encounter in the usual spot where they always meet, renewing their feelings. The Alcott is a song about finding a new connection with the person you love in a public space like a hotel bar. The National & Taylor Swift, The Alcott: the lyrics & their meaning
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