Just a beautiful song. It should be "Your blue collar pride" not "you\'re"; "And your loose cotton cool" not "you\'re".\n\nThe narrator sees someone in a seedy bar filled with drunken louts. Clearly he feels "above" them, but he especially feels that this beauty he sees could do better and desires her. He feels he would be better for her than the "idiots" she seems to hang out with.\n\nTo me this is a beautiful evocation of that feeling we\'ve all had where we\'re lonely and see someone who makes us feel longing and an ache to be with them. It could even be someone we know and have a crush on. But in this case it\'s a stranger in a bar.
Just a beautiful song. It should be "Your blue collar pride" not "you\'re"; "And your loose cotton cool" not "you\'re".\n\nThe narrator sees someone in a seedy bar filled with drunken louts. Clearly he feels "above" them, but he especially feels that this beauty he sees could do better and desires her. He feels he would be better for her than the "idiots" she seems to hang out with.\n\nTo me this is a beautiful evocation of that feeling we\'ve all had where we\'re lonely and see someone who makes us feel longing and an ache to be with them. It could even be someone we know and have a crush on. But in this case it\'s a stranger in a bar.