This may be the most obvious meaning, but isn't it about a small-town girl who makes it big?
Gabrielle, who in the first line catches the bus and then has a pretty passionate, exciting relationship with him. They have to end it when she does become famous: "she shines on screen" but although he's happy for her, I think he also regrets it a bit "once she was only mine". I think in the chorus he's saying that fame's fickle: everyone may know her name today, but when she's another has-been he'll still remember her and love her.
I'm sure it has a deeper meaning, but I'm a state-the-obvious kind of person.
This may be the most obvious meaning, but isn't it about a small-town girl who makes it big? Gabrielle, who in the first line catches the bus and then has a pretty passionate, exciting relationship with him. They have to end it when she does become famous: "she shines on screen" but although he's happy for her, I think he also regrets it a bit "once she was only mine". I think in the chorus he's saying that fame's fickle: everyone may know her name today, but when she's another has-been he'll still remember her and love her. I'm sure it has a deeper meaning, but I'm a state-the-obvious kind of person.