I think these lyrics are wrong and it's "love's sweeter days" not "lost sweeter days" (and some other sites have it as that).
It's a nice song about love redeeming him and making him happy. It seems like the old man gave him some advice about love being what makes life worthwhile or something which he didn't believe until it really happened to him.
In a certain sense I almost get the feeling that the old man is the same person as the singer projected into the future. In a way maybe he's thinking "when I'm an old man, what will I remember and will have been worth it." This is speculation but it sorta seems that way, somehow. A nice and unusual love song.
I think these lyrics are wrong and it's "love's sweeter days" not "lost sweeter days" (and some other sites have it as that).
It's a nice song about love redeeming him and making him happy. It seems like the old man gave him some advice about love being what makes life worthwhile or something which he didn't believe until it really happened to him.
In a certain sense I almost get the feeling that the old man is the same person as the singer projected into the future. In a way maybe he's thinking "when I'm an old man, what will I remember and will have been worth it." This is speculation but it sorta seems that way, somehow. A nice and unusual love song.