This song is about marriage or at least a long-term relationship. The first verse was when he first knew her before they were even together, and speaks about catching a glimpse of her dancing where she did not know he was watching. He implies that she is far away in the sense that they have no relationship, but he wishes for more. He was falling in love, and had visions of them being together in the future happy in the sunset/meadow/breeze.
Then he fast forwards in his life (I'm older now), talks of living in the city (implicating that in the past they lived in the suburbs, maybe she was his neighbor even?) and that they live together. At some point between verse 1 and 2, they came together.
But things are different than he had originally dreamed. He wakes up in the morning and she pretends to be sleeping. I can relate to this, because my wife and I met when we were very young (16 years ago) and we have been married for 10 years now, with 3 children. I wake up in the mornings early to go to work, and although she hears me rise, she isn't jumping out of bed to see me off to work like she once did when our relationship was still new (she even used to make breakfast for me). Reality has set in, and life and marriage is more bittersweet now. With jobs, and children, you can sometimes become more like business partners than two people madly in love.
This song is about marriage or at least a long-term relationship. The first verse was when he first knew her before they were even together, and speaks about catching a glimpse of her dancing where she did not know he was watching. He implies that she is far away in the sense that they have no relationship, but he wishes for more. He was falling in love, and had visions of them being together in the future happy in the sunset/meadow/breeze.
Then he fast forwards in his life (I'm older now), talks of living in the city (implicating that in the past they lived in the suburbs, maybe she was his neighbor even?) and that they live together. At some point between verse 1 and 2, they came together.
But things are different than he had originally dreamed. He wakes up in the morning and she pretends to be sleeping. I can relate to this, because my wife and I met when we were very young (16 years ago) and we have been married for 10 years now, with 3 children. I wake up in the mornings early to go to work, and although she hears me rise, she isn't jumping out of bed to see me off to work like she once did when our relationship was still new (she even used to make breakfast for me). Reality has set in, and life and marriage is more bittersweet now. With jobs, and children, you can sometimes become more like business partners than two people madly in love.