"I saw you with Mr. Goodmorning, some velvet rope on the curb/ he gave me the stormiest warning, he hung around like a sign that said 'do not disturb':"
Elliott's mother welcomed Charlie, his stepfather, and laid out the red carpet for him. She had a new baby and needed someone to help raise him. For Elliott though, living with Charlie wasn't happy. I believe that Charlie is "Mr. Goodmorning," as he is typically associated with sleep, dreaming, and night time in Elliott's songs, as this is when Elliott would be taken up to their attic and abused. Victims of child abuse are often told that what they remember was just a bad dream. E.g., "no bad dream fucker's gonna boss me around," "red-hot wet, swollen cheeks, fall asleep," "mostly they'd meet when he was asleep and have some sick exchange," "Charlie's got a band in his hand, a rubber loop that says 'Im the man you really want, so just act natural,' don't try to tell me your bullshit schemes, cause I have no idea what you mean, no idea, I'm just trying to sleep," etc.
"You made the interior landscape you see me walking through/ you and me in the ruins of ruins, all of the beautiful things that I made once for you:" Elliott wrote a lot of beautiful songs, but many of them are associated with painful memories because they're about Charlie, either directly or indirectly because they're about the painful feelings of abandonment stemming from his mother basically choosing Charlie over him and Elliott subsequently moving to Portland, Oregon to live with his father. Charlie's actions had so much of an effect on Elliott's thinking that he "made his interior landscape."
"I saw you with Mr. Goodmorning, some velvet rope on the curb/ he gave me the stormiest warning, he hung around like a sign that said 'do not disturb':" Elliott's mother welcomed Charlie, his stepfather, and laid out the red carpet for him. She had a new baby and needed someone to help raise him. For Elliott though, living with Charlie wasn't happy. I believe that Charlie is "Mr. Goodmorning," as he is typically associated with sleep, dreaming, and night time in Elliott's songs, as this is when Elliott would be taken up to their attic and abused. Victims of child abuse are often told that what they remember was just a bad dream. E.g., "no bad dream fucker's gonna boss me around," "red-hot wet, swollen cheeks, fall asleep," "mostly they'd meet when he was asleep and have some sick exchange," "Charlie's got a band in his hand, a rubber loop that says 'Im the man you really want, so just act natural,' don't try to tell me your bullshit schemes, cause I have no idea what you mean, no idea, I'm just trying to sleep," etc.
"You made the interior landscape you see me walking through/ you and me in the ruins of ruins, all of the beautiful things that I made once for you:" Elliott wrote a lot of beautiful songs, but many of them are associated with painful memories because they're about Charlie, either directly or indirectly because they're about the painful feelings of abandonment stemming from his mother basically choosing Charlie over him and Elliott subsequently moving to Portland, Oregon to live with his father. Charlie's actions had so much of an effect on Elliott's thinking that he "made his interior landscape."