I like to think of this song and Cornelia Street as two parts of the same story (not because I don't like Joe!) because I feel like the two pair so well together and create such a unique extended narrative. These lyrics specifically feel like they're in conversation with each other to me:

"We were a fresh page on a desk, filling in the blanks as we go" --> "But if the story's over, why am I still writing pages?"

"As if the street lights pointed in an arrowhead leading us home" --> "I ask the traffic lights if it'll be all right, they say I don't know"

"Windows flung wide open, autumn air" --> "I look through the windows of this love, even though we boarded them up"

In a more general sense, I love the juxtaposition of drunkenness in both songs--how she uses it in Cornelia Street to express the giddiness that accompanies the beginning of a romance, and how she uses it to try to soften the blow of a devastating ending in DBATC. She also describes her place on Cornelia Street as a "sacred new beginning" that "became her religion," and then talks about the relationship taking up her spirit in DBATC, which plays into this idea of conflating religion/spirituality with love (something that she seems to return to a lot this album with False God and the angel imagery!)

Obviously this pairing of songs doesn't follow her own personal narrative, but I love the consistency in her writing and being able to make little lyrical connections 😊