Poster above explained the chorus well, IMO, and the main theme of the song, which is about unrequited infatuation. It's about focusing on a daydream of someone, knowing you cannot have their reality.
My take on the verses...
Here's all I know - he doesn't know much about her in reality
Your checkered room and your velvet bow - He's like alice chasing after the rabbit down the rabbit hole to a distorted world; he's pursuing a girl he cannot have, but only in his imagination/dreams
Your Elvis song in my ear - he became infatuated with her like you would a catchy pop song, she is stuck in his head
That moonlit voice that I hear - this either means that when he is alone with his thoughts at night, he hears her voice, as in, she is all he thinks of; OR it refers to the voice of doubt he hears at night, reminding him that he'll never have her
Now we are bold as brass - this is an expression which means overconfident, acting like you're gold when you're just brass
We walk along our golden crest - people feel they are above others in their overconfidence, as a crest is the top of a hill
We hide away for a week - people are afraid of reality, so they hide from it & become passive
We only look and don't speak - this mixture of pride & fear keeps people from connecting, from pursuing a romantic interest, so they just look from a distance & don't actually talk; this & the above line also allude to games people play when they are infatuated
Poster above explained the chorus well, IMO, and the main theme of the song, which is about unrequited infatuation. It's about focusing on a daydream of someone, knowing you cannot have their reality.
My take on the verses...
Here's all I know - he doesn't know much about her in reality Your checkered room and your velvet bow - He's like alice chasing after the rabbit down the rabbit hole to a distorted world; he's pursuing a girl he cannot have, but only in his imagination/dreams
Your Elvis song in my ear - he became infatuated with her like you would a catchy pop song, she is stuck in his head That moonlit voice that I hear - this either means that when he is alone with his thoughts at night, he hears her voice, as in, she is all he thinks of; OR it refers to the voice of doubt he hears at night, reminding him that he'll never have her
Now we are bold as brass - this is an expression which means overconfident, acting like you're gold when you're just brass We walk along our golden crest - people feel they are above others in their overconfidence, as a crest is the top of a hill We hide away for a week - people are afraid of reality, so they hide from it & become passive We only look and don't speak - this mixture of pride & fear keeps people from connecting, from pursuing a romantic interest, so they just look from a distance & don't actually talk; this & the above line also allude to games people play when they are infatuated