One of the things I like about this song is the neat little frame work that it is put in. If you choose to look at it this way, the last line (ever since we've been apart) could be a reference to the very last meeting he had with this person. You see the song starts out talking about a conversation. My thoughts are that this conversation with an old lover brought back all these memories and emotions, and when he says that last line, it can be taken two ways. The most obvious way would be that he is talking about when ever the love between them was broken, but a more subtle interpretation is that he is talking about how he has felt just since that conversation that is referenced at the beginning of the song.
Now, who else could stir up all this interpretation between essentially two lines of a song besides dear old robert?
I would like to say that this song is sad, but it as if it has invented an emotion that has never been felt before, so the mere word 'sad' hardly does any justice.
One of the things I like about this song is the neat little frame work that it is put in. If you choose to look at it this way, the last line (ever since we've been apart) could be a reference to the very last meeting he had with this person. You see the song starts out talking about a conversation. My thoughts are that this conversation with an old lover brought back all these memories and emotions, and when he says that last line, it can be taken two ways. The most obvious way would be that he is talking about when ever the love between them was broken, but a more subtle interpretation is that he is talking about how he has felt just since that conversation that is referenced at the beginning of the song.
Now, who else could stir up all this interpretation between essentially two lines of a song besides dear old robert?
I would like to say that this song is sad, but it as if it has invented an emotion that has never been felt before, so the mere word 'sad' hardly does any justice.