I kind of thought that it was a mother talking to her son, too, only she's Elaine, and she's saying how when she was with this man she was herself, and never was after he left. She just drank and such, and fantasized about Alain Delon (a French actor) and her lover that she had in the "Days of Elaine." The chorus sort of could relate to a car crash, where she slammed on the brakes and turned off her brights (she laid on the brakes and she dulled the glow) and it seems like it's in slow motion (doesn't it go so slow?). The "build it up to tear it down," may refer to her driving drunk purposely, a suicide, just waiting for a crash. I dunno, that's what I thought. And 2 comments? Come on.
I kind of thought that it was a mother talking to her son, too, only she's Elaine, and she's saying how when she was with this man she was herself, and never was after he left. She just drank and such, and fantasized about Alain Delon (a French actor) and her lover that she had in the "Days of Elaine." The chorus sort of could relate to a car crash, where she slammed on the brakes and turned off her brights (she laid on the brakes and she dulled the glow) and it seems like it's in slow motion (doesn't it go so slow?). The "build it up to tear it down," may refer to her driving drunk purposely, a suicide, just waiting for a crash. I dunno, that's what I thought. And 2 comments? Come on.