This is one of those great REM album tracks that only the fans who buy the albums get to hear and repeat.
Texarkana is the town that overlaps Texas and Arkansas, it's in both States and also, in a way, in neither. It's a great analogy for a state of mind or a time in your life.
If you see The Town That Dreaded Sundown, this place has another significance.
This is similar to how Shiny Happy People, which sounds like a hippy free love tune, is actually about the tragedy in Tin Square in China.
