This song speaks simply and powerfully about the way communication breaks down between two people who were in loving but are drifting apart - they each wish the other to do something or say something they desperately want to hear, but they don't tell each other what that thing is...they just wait and hope it happens, but it never does. The almost telepathic communication of young intense love has gone, and they haven't learnt to bridge the gap. After 21 years of marriage, I can feel it happening all the time, the silences, the expectations that come to nought, the hope of love returning slowly dying...
This song speaks simply and powerfully about the way communication breaks down between two people who were in loving but are drifting apart - they each wish the other to do something or say something they desperately want to hear, but they don't tell each other what that thing is...they just wait and hope it happens, but it never does. The almost telepathic communication of young intense love has gone, and they haven't learnt to bridge the gap. After 21 years of marriage, I can feel it happening all the time, the silences, the expectations that come to nought, the hope of love returning slowly dying...