Sounds awfully like a band breakup song to me - the conundrum being that Jeff Lynne himself was the demise of ELO, with his megalomania and refusal to treat anyone else fairly. Look at how he treated Kelly Groucutt - paid him as a session musician when he was clearly part of the band for many years; and the string section, summarily dismissing them when they didn't suit the direction he wanted to go after all that time and their integral part in ELO's success. ELO is not ELO without those others who took ELO to the big-time - it's just Jeff Lynne on an ego trip.
Sounds awfully like a band breakup song to me - the conundrum being that Jeff Lynne himself was the demise of ELO, with his megalomania and refusal to treat anyone else fairly. Look at how he treated Kelly Groucutt - paid him as a session musician when he was clearly part of the band for many years; and the string section, summarily dismissing them when they didn't suit the direction he wanted to go after all that time and their integral part in ELO's success. ELO is not ELO without those others who took ELO to the big-time - it's just Jeff Lynne on an ego trip.