Mr. Goodmorning

ok, these are what I have for the studio version:

I saw you with Mr. Goodmorning Some velvet rope on the curb He gave me his stormiest warning You held your head like a sign that said 'do not disturb'

"Don't try being part of my life Isn't gonna get you anywhere Go by--just between us, you know, don't you know how much I care?

"I made the interior landscape you'll soon be walking through You'll land in the ruins of ruins-- All of the beautiful things that I made once for you

"Don't try being part of my life Isn't gonna get you anywhere Go by--just between us, you know, don't you know how much I care? Like nothing happened at all Don't come by, don't hang around, and don't call I'll be kicking your memory's ass, like my shot glass"

"I saw you with Mr. Goodmorning... I saw you with Mr. Goodmorning..."

"Don't try being part of my life Isn't gonna take your pain away I'm fine, strong with my life Feeling stronger every single day Feeling stronger every single day"

It is my opinion that this song is about the narrator encountering a former lover who is ignoring him. All of the lyrics aside from the opening stanza and the refrain later in the song ("I saw you...") are spoken from the perspective of the former lover, words implied in her attempts to pretend that the narrator doesn't exist. Thus it is she who is "feeling stronger every single day," which makes sense considering those lyrics are sung with such boastful invective and agony that it makes me want to crumble into a heap.

sorry, i have a couple corrections after listening to the song more. He plays it differently at different live shows. how like elliott to do that. "What you could do but you won’t. I want a future and you don’t. Cos' I care enough about you now" - 5-8-00 "What you could do but you won't. I want a future and you don't. Guess I care about you after now" - 5-17-00

"I saw you with Mr. Goodmorning, some velvet rope on the curb/ he gave me the stormiest warning, he hung around like a sign that said 'do not disturb':" Elliott's mother welcomed Charlie, his stepfather, and laid out the red carpet for him. She had a new baby and needed someone to help raise him. For Elliott though, living with Charlie wasn't happy. I believe that Charlie is "Mr. Goodmorning," as he is typically associated with sleep, dreaming, and night time in Elliott's songs, as this is when Elliott would be taken up to their attic and abused. Victims of child abuse are often told that what they remember was just a bad dream. E.g., "no bad dream fucker's gonna boss me around," "red-hot wet, swollen cheeks, fall asleep," "mostly they'd meet when he was asleep and have some sick exchange," "Charlie's got a band in his hand, a rubber loop that says 'Im the man you really want, so just act natural,' don't try to tell me your bullshit schemes, cause I have no idea what you mean, no idea, I'm just trying to sleep," etc.

"You made the interior landscape you see me walking through/ you and me in the ruins of ruins, all of the beautiful things that I made once for you:" Elliott wrote a lot of beautiful songs, but many of them are associated with painful memories because they're about Charlie, either directly or indirectly because they're about the painful feelings of abandonment stemming from his mother basically choosing Charlie over him and Elliott subsequently moving to Portland, Oregon to live with his father. Charlie's actions had so much of an effect on Elliott's thinking that he "made his interior landscape."

does anyone know what this song means?

I'm almost positive the last line of the studio version is:

I'm fine, so reclined I'm Feeling stronger every single day