The whole song is a circle: notice "the game is over" line and "I stop and think it over", different meanings for over; as an end and as a start. The whole song is about a dead love, the person knows that, totally, but the end shows a bit of denial towards the end of the relationship.
I feel bad in some way because I remember showing this song to a friend who was just separated from her husband. A week later, she divorced the guy. Sometimes I think if it was the song that had to do on her decision. :-S
I think it's interesting to compare this song with one that Simon wrote thirteen years later–"Train in the Distance"–about the failure of his marriage to Peggy Harper.
I think it's interesting to compare this song with one that Simon wrote thirteen years later–"Train in the Distance"–about the failure of his marriage to Peggy Harper.
The whole song is a circle: notice "the game is over" line and "I stop and think it over", different meanings for over; as an end and as a start. The whole song is about a dead love, the person knows that, totally, but the end shows a bit of denial towards the end of the relationship. I feel bad in some way because I remember showing this song to a friend who was just separated from her husband. A week later, she divorced the guy. Sometimes I think if it was the song that had to do on her decision. :-S
I think it's interesting to compare this song with one that Simon wrote thirteen years later–"Train in the Distance"–about the failure of his marriage to Peggy Harper.
I think it's interesting to compare this song with one that Simon wrote thirteen years later–"Train in the Distance"–about the failure of his marriage to Peggy Harper.