"all smiles and celebration", not false in celebration, which makes the next line make more sense. If you can change your like you'd be all smiles.
Wild speculation here, but I recently heard Elliott discuss writing Between the Bars while watching Xena warrior princess on mute. Pushing 9 can mean he's pushing volume to 9/10 on his amp while watching "pretty pictures with the sound turned down", television on mute perhaps.
But it also sounds like ninety. As in pushing 90 mph, through the country side, cows and cotton.
This song is honestly quite difficult to decipher. The verses seem unrelated. This whole song could just be written off of feeling, mood, and atmosphere. It seems to be a very in the moment piece.
Looking at the moon maybe gives him reprieve from the crazy life of a rock star in LA that he wasn't quite built for. That's the happy moment that's just for now, cos when he looks back at the city, like a planet, it pulls Elliott back into it's inescapable orbit. Back down to reality.
some or all of this could be related to the song, or not. I really think this was more about the music/melody/sound and style rather than trying to express a specific meaning. Elliott wrote much of his music like that. Subtle pointers to what he's saying, but without saying anything specific, or cohesive with the rest of the same, but it just sounds good because of word selection, imagery, and flow. Who knows, wish we knew more.
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"all smiles and celebration", not false in celebration, which makes the next line make more sense. If you can change your like you'd be all smiles.
Wild speculation here, but I recently heard Elliott discuss writing Between the Bars while watching Xena warrior princess on mute. Pushing 9 can mean he's pushing volume to 9/10 on his amp while watching "pretty pictures with the sound turned down", television on mute perhaps.
But it also sounds like ninety. As in pushing 90 mph, through the country side, cows and cotton. This song is honestly quite difficult to decipher. The verses seem unrelated. This whole song could just be written off of feeling, mood, and atmosphere. It seems to be a very in the moment piece.
Looking at the moon maybe gives him reprieve from the crazy life of a rock star in LA that he wasn't quite built for. That's the happy moment that's just for now, cos when he looks back at the city, like a planet, it pulls Elliott back into it's inescapable orbit. Back down to reality.
some or all of this could be related to the song, or not. I really think this was more about the music/melody/sound and style rather than trying to express a specific meaning. Elliott wrote much of his music like that. Subtle pointers to what he's saying, but without saying anything specific, or cohesive with the rest of the same, but it just sounds good because of word selection, imagery, and flow. Who knows, wish we knew more.