"The moon and sun," is from a famous love poem by EE Cummings - where he says, "You are my sun, my moon, and all my stars." Basically another way of saying the person was the world to him. So to me, Petty is saying that he used to adore & worship the woman, but now that he\'s had the change of heart, she has become now like a loaded gun - no longer someone to be worshipped but someone to be avoided and in a way, feared.
"The moon and sun," is from a famous love poem by EE Cummings - where he says, "You are my sun, my moon, and all my stars." Basically another way of saying the person was the world to him. So to me, Petty is saying that he used to adore & worship the woman, but now that he\'s had the change of heart, she has become now like a loaded gun - no longer someone to be worshipped but someone to be avoided and in a way, feared.