The imagery in this song is perhaps the most vivid of all Elliott's songs.
It's very poetic, and fraught with metaphors and ambiguities.
To me, though, this song just speaks of the awkward, difficulties of life,
"I'm a junkyard full of false starts"
and the way people are always struggling to stay above the water, always hiding things, and always just barely making it through the day out of pure luck, because there's no organisation, no purpose, no drive in their lives;
"So you got in a kind of trouble that nobody knows
And you're coming up roses everywhere you go
Red roses"
The imagery in this song is perhaps the most vivid of all Elliott's songs. It's very poetic, and fraught with metaphors and ambiguities.
To me, though, this song just speaks of the awkward, difficulties of life, "I'm a junkyard full of false starts" and the way people are always struggling to stay above the water, always hiding things, and always just barely making it through the day out of pure luck, because there's no organisation, no purpose, no drive in their lives;
"So you got in a kind of trouble that nobody knows And you're coming up roses everywhere you go Red roses"
But that's just me. I adore this song.
This one makes the most sense.
This one makes the most sense.