This is one of my favorite James Taylor songs...it's like both a funeral lament and a love song to the earth at the same time. It expresses this deep reverence to the earth, and this connection with it...I love the line "helpless and speechless and breathless"...it's like he sees the world, and experiences the rush of beauty of it, and while he loves it, he is in agony as we have to slowly watch it die...I don't know, I'm not explaining this well, but I just find this song incredibly beautiful.
This is one of my favorite James Taylor songs...it's like both a funeral lament and a love song to the earth at the same time. It expresses this deep reverence to the earth, and this connection with it...I love the line "helpless and speechless and breathless"...it's like he sees the world, and experiences the rush of beauty of it, and while he loves it, he is in agony as we have to slowly watch it die...I don't know, I'm not explaining this well, but I just find this song incredibly beautiful.