I wish I could do this without apologizing for it constantly

See, no matter how many times I listen to "She's a Handsome Woman" and read people discuss it, I can't get over the way it's written. And Brendon does a really nice job of mushing it all together but I will just always think it's a song about/with the scraped album stories/bits.
Which doesn't take away from the progress of the song itself, Innocence to Bombed reverie, because from what Ryan Ross said that album was supposed to be a musical - with a start, a middle and an ending - anyway. But he couldn't finish it.

He also said he didn't wanna make an album about becoming famous and being disillusioned by it, but instead of being swayed by that, I'm taking it as "When I got pass the middle I realized the ending is not true and we made this new totally positive album 'cause you didn't beat us down with your bullshit."

Innocence. Sunk the glow and drowned in covers, send for all your absent lover's things.
Sheepish Wolves. Looking lived in eating buttons, Wink, just don't put your teeth on me.
Accidents. Let the evening in the backdoor, filled the room ceiling to the floor.
Beat backbones. Grazed the poem and made it strange, I wasn't born to be a skeleton.
Go on, grab your hat and fetch a camera. Go on, film the world before it happens.
Jealous orchard. The sky is falling off the ceiling while I'm tucking fibs into a cookie jar.
Bombed reverie. It's useless searching in the cupboard when everything you have is on your back.

Not that I need to but I'll rant explain anyway.

( Cut. Cause that is how much I like you.  )

Folkin' Around

Allow me to exaggerate a memory or two
Where summers lasted longer than we do.
Where nothing really mattered except for me to be with you.
But in time we all forgot and we all grew.

( Cut for yet another rant )

  commented with: Apparently there's a lot of Mormon imagery in the song, like putting out the lantern is a symbolic of leaving the faith, etc., so I think it's about leaving his family and their faith and making it on his own.

Which is relevant 'cause it proves I'm not stoopid. :) Thus I paste it here.