to me this sounds like the love for an ex-girlfriend that Elliott now despises. And since or has always had other difficulties to go aliong with her.
She's always there 'over by the westside rails' but he doesnt really need her and relies more on the alcohol.
He wishes to be an ordinary persion i.e. the 'plainclothes man' and is envious of such a position. Thats why he calls him 'you little bastard, little boy in blue'.
and the perfect moment in a flash of light shows how it was great for those brief moments of time, like when you look at a picture and only see how happy everyone is without the true background to what is really happening.
Plus he has lost the love, hence he says that people think that he'll ' recover my love of her once in a while'. showing again that the picture doesnt portray everything that is really happening and he basically saying that he doesnt think so and that its over.
to me this sounds like the love for an ex-girlfriend that Elliott now despises. And since or has always had other difficulties to go aliong with her. She's always there 'over by the westside rails' but he doesnt really need her and relies more on the alcohol.
He wishes to be an ordinary persion i.e. the 'plainclothes man' and is envious of such a position. Thats why he calls him 'you little bastard, little boy in blue'. and the perfect moment in a flash of light shows how it was great for those brief moments of time, like when you look at a picture and only see how happy everyone is without the true background to what is really happening.
Plus he has lost the love, hence he says that people think that he'll ' recover my love of her once in a while'. showing again that the picture doesnt portray everything that is really happening and he basically saying that he doesnt think so and that its over.
my 2 pennies anyway.