“At its core, ‘Stick Season’ is a song about feeling left behind and feeling trapped. It's about seeing the other side of a place you thought was only beautiful. As a relationship ends, some place or someone you used to look back at so fondly quickly transforms into a memory of pain.”—Noah Kahan
整首歌只有人聲、吉他,其實不怎麼華麗,可能也因為這樣,聽得出對自己的誠實與直白。歌詞很可愛地淺顯易懂,沒有過多裝飾。但汲取自再真實不過的生活小事,讓每句歌詞都可以感受到背後豐富的情緒跟一段段的回憶風景。其中特別有感的一句是Noah Kahan把疫情下無法隨心所欲到處旅行的煩悶心境寫進歌詞,並調侃地說"Doc told me to travel but there's COVID on the planes."
“The beauty of autumn foliage in Vermont transforms into a brown and gray wasteland as we wait for the first snow. It is an unfortunate but necessary transition, similar in so many ways to the transition from familiar lovers into heartbroken strangers. I like to look at the song as hopeful; winter will come, the snow will fall, melt, and eventually summer will be back in all its beauty. You will suffer, move on, and survive again.”—Noah Kahan
歌詞的最後寫道“Now you're tire tracks, and one pair of shoes, and I'm split in half, but that'll have to do.” 有些事到了某個特定的時間點會得到諒解並接受,過程可能有些笨拙,但拾回了自己的過去,才能慢慢接受這樣的自己,然後活著。