There is so much sadness in this song. The whole point seems to be that breaking up in inevitable and the time you spend together (best case) is a time when you're "falling in love". Of course for the woman in the song this didn't work out very well because the man she was with didn't seem to care much for her and in the process her dreams seem to have been lost. "She wanted to be a cowboy", so final and past tense, like the woman's life is over.
There is so much sadness in this song. The whole point seems to be that breaking up in inevitable and the time you spend together (best case) is a time when you're "falling in love". Of course for the woman in the song this didn't work out very well because the man she was with didn't seem to care much for her and in the process her dreams seem to have been lost. "She wanted to be a cowboy", so final and past tense, like the woman's life is over.