- **Seeking Clarity**: "Give me a second eye" suggests a moment of pause or reflection is needed to get the narrator's thoughts in order.

- **Friends' Activities**: Friends of the narrator are in the restroom engaging in activities involving drug use, indicated by "getting higher than the empire state."

- **Lover's Presence**: The lover is waiting for the narrator at the bar, "just across the bar."

- **Occupied Seat**: Narrator's seat has been taken by someone wearing sunglasses, hinting at an unwelcome intrusion or a new character, "asking by scar."

- **Past Regrets**: Acknowledgement of a past mistake or gift given months ago that is now a source of tension, "I know I gave it to you months ago.

- **Attempt to Forget**: Understanding that the other person is trying to forget past incidents, "I know you're trying to forget."

- **Alcohol and Apologies**: The complicating factors of drinking and half-hearted apologies that have created gaps in understanding and reconciliation, "between the drinks and subtle things, the holes in my apologies."

- **Efforts to Amend**: The narrator is making a sincere effort to make amends and take back what was done or said, "You know I'm trying hard to take it back."

- **Promise of Support**: A commitment to be there for the other person at the end of the night, even if they feel like falling down, promising to carry them home, "So if by the time the bar closes and you feel like falling down, I'll carry you home."

- **Repeated Assurance**: The narrator reiterates the promise to carry the person home if they feel vulnerable or in need of support, "So if by the time the bar closes and you feel like falling, I'll carry you home tonight."