Lily (My One and Only)

Clearly, Lilly is a love interest! ....I think the song intentionally fools us into thinking that the relationship is real. When he says "I can hardly wait until I'm with her" it's how he's feeling, not something that is going to happen. When he says "love is in your eyes" feeling her love exactly how he wants it to be. It's all in his head. Lastly, when he says "and when I'm with her I feel fine" he feeling like she saves him just by being in his life. None of it is really happening. The hanging in the tree is slapstick. The writer is throwing us off the track of his sadness by disguising the unfortunate truth that they he is not as close to her as he would like to be. The unfortunate truth that he doesn't know if she even see's him. The terrible truth that he is having a fantasy that he doesn't really believe can ever be actualized. So why not put the sad truth in funny hat? I convenient disguise. It's by no means hiding the feelings they are clearly on display for us to feel them subconsciously as we puzzled by what it all means