This is one of my favourite songs of all time. To me it seems to be about love and loss. The man in the story has fallen in love with someone that he can no longer have for whatever reason.
To me the female character may have passed away, from the lines "spitfire thin and strung like a violin, i was" - thin and highly strung with worry/grief?? "yours was a face with the grace from a different age"- aged through illness?? The man appears to reminisce about the loss with the line "you were the sun in my sunday morning" (which is surely one of the most beautful lines ever!!!) and he is stillso much in love that he sings "know ill always wait", until they can be reunited? I suppose those lines could also just be him reminiscing about a relationship when they were both younger, maybe ive just got a morbid mind!
I also love the line "sodium light turning silver to gold", which to me is the streetlights turning the rain in the streets from silver to yellow- a fantastic analogy.
Someone give guy garvey a medal for coming up with such beautiful songs!
This is one of my favourite songs of all time. To me it seems to be about love and loss. The man in the story has fallen in love with someone that he can no longer have for whatever reason.
To me the female character may have passed away, from the lines "spitfire thin and strung like a violin, i was" - thin and highly strung with worry/grief?? "yours was a face with the grace from a different age"- aged through illness?? The man appears to reminisce about the loss with the line "you were the sun in my sunday morning" (which is surely one of the most beautful lines ever!!!) and he is stillso much in love that he sings "know ill always wait", until they can be reunited? I suppose those lines could also just be him reminiscing about a relationship when they were both younger, maybe ive just got a morbid mind!
I also love the line "sodium light turning silver to gold", which to me is the streetlights turning the rain in the streets from silver to yellow- a fantastic analogy.
Someone give guy garvey a medal for coming up with such beautiful songs!