The Loneliness of a Tower Crane Driver Lyrics

Lyric discussion by xdvr 

Cover art for The Loneliness of a Tower Crane Driver lyrics by Elbow

This is amazing! I can just switch off and bliss out.

Not quite sure what it's about, but it's definitely relating some fall from grace.

Mirrors and Smoke is a term for illusions and the following line is about living a life that's a joke.

Maybe he's relating the whole miserable Elbow "character" to be just that, part of a character and sometimes he's happy and sometimes he's sad... because that's how people are, but other people aren't the brightest and think it's a one persona only thing...