I really love this song too. I think the last verse is the grandfather giving Lem advice on his recent relationship. And I do think the reference of "moments of our lives cradled" is a reference to God or whatever higher being there might be. He's clearly thinking about when he cradled the snails. But notice that he puts the snails down in some random place, possibly far from where the snail lives. Similarly do we often get disoriented by changes in our lives. And furthermore - he "drained" her defenses. So he didn't cradle her softly enough....

I really love this song too. I think the last verse is the grandfather giving Lem advice on his recent relationship. And I do think the reference of "moments of our lives cradled" is a reference to God or whatever higher being there might be. He's clearly thinking about when he cradled the snails. But notice that he puts the snails down in some random place, possibly far from where the snail lives. Similarly do we often get disoriented by changes in our lives. And furthermore - he "drained" her defenses. So he didn't cradle her softly enough.

The song is about unexpectedly meeting someone, and falling in love.

The song is about unexpectedly meeting someone, and falling in love.

It's about that person who comes in out of nowhere, and feeling vulnerable around them to show them your true self. How hard you try not to be someone else, but to be that who you are around them.

It's about that person who comes in out of nowhere, and feeling vulnerable around them to show them your true self. How hard you try not to be someone else, but to be that who you are around them.

How they make you feel like they are your favorite part of your life. How you've fallen so much for them. That you'd even give up on what you desire most just to be with them.

How they make you feel like they are your favorite part of your life. How you've fallen so much for them. That you'd even give up on what you desire most just to be with them.

How you've kept so much hidden from everyone else that they were able to...

How you've kept so much hidden from everyone else that they were able to see right through it and right at the person you are. Imperfections and all.

How one feels invincible, before they've found the one that breaks through their walls.

For some of us that person is meant to stay and sometimes they're here just to help us stop hiding and show us that real love is possible no matter the outcome in the end.

There's so much wisdom and insight contained in this song.

There's so much wisdom and insight contained in this song.

The rhythm has moments of heartbeat, moments arhythmic and meandering, like a river with eddies and furls. The strumming of the opening riff, conjures an image for me of wave-riplets lapping a riverbank or a shoreline.

The rhythm has moments of heartbeat, moments arhythmic and meandering, like a river with eddies and furls. The strumming of the opening riff, conjures an image for me of wave-riplets lapping a riverbank or a shoreline.

At times he sings with the tempo, and at others he'll fall behind or sing ahead of the main rhythm. There's also a funny assymetry to the instrumental break which comes a little more than half way into the song, and repeats about 3 or 4 measures (as a motif) after the main stream...

At times he sings with the tempo, and at others he'll fall behind or sing ahead of the main rhythm. There's also a funny assymetry to the instrumental break which comes a little more than half way into the song, and repeats about 3 or 4 measures (as a motif) after the main stream of the song begins anew.

For me, this song is like a river, a kind of metaphor for life. It's all there - the good, the not so good, the obstacles, the ideas and points of view which can hold us prisoner. What I love lyrically about the song is it's call to action - Hey, now, hey, now.. Don't dream it's over! To me, the song speaks of the moment - now - and urges the Lover, whom the singer is addressing to engage with life and embrace a real intention to go beyond doubt, not simply engaging in hope (hope being a dangerous practice, in my view, because it clings to an expected outcome, and will only bring disappointment and suffering if the hoped-for thing is not realized).

To me, the lyrics really offer an antidote, a way to respond to the conditions which can arise in life, challenging us, way beyond our control and influence. The lyrics are transcendent, an expression of good-intention, liberating and freeing, as he puts it.

It's such a beautiful love song. Bonne fête de St-Valentin, Lover.. to the Lover in all of us!