It's a song about pining. Cute. It's Adam Duritz talking to himself about his lovelife and all its dead ends with the thin guise of actually telling it all to an actress he probably never even personally met.
It's got a lot of similar themes to other CC songs -- the "lovesick rejections," the "idiot walking a tightrope of fortune and fame," etc. etc. The underlying theme is, if I'm so rich and famous and loved, why can't I hold down a meaningful relationship. He feels like he's play acting a part bigger than him, and he's in over his head ("You can see a million miles tonight, but you can't get very far", and "We stand up in the palace like it's the last of the great pioneer town bars.")
It's a song about pining. Cute. It's Adam Duritz talking to himself about his lovelife and all its dead ends with the thin guise of actually telling it all to an actress he probably never even personally met.
It's got a lot of similar themes to other CC songs -- the "lovesick rejections," the "idiot walking a tightrope of fortune and fame," etc. etc. The underlying theme is, if I'm so rich and famous and loved, why can't I hold down a meaningful relationship. He feels like he's play acting a part bigger than him, and he's in over his head ("You can see a million miles tonight, but you can't get very far", and "We stand up in the palace like it's the last of the great pioneer town bars.")