I can't believe this song doesn't have a comment, it's one of the songs I've heard from A23 that -always- gives me the chills, every time. The final verse is just so sad. As for the meaning, I think it's fairly obvious, a man asking if his lover will have the patience and the love to stay with him even as he grows old and withers.
Agreed, it is one of Tom's best songs, the melancholy is overpowering. It never fails to touch me. I believe he suspects there is a good chance 'she' will fall out of love with him. They have had good times together but his joy is tempered by fear that it will not last (for whatever reason), and the fear of losing his faculties as he ages. Being self-absorbed in his fears, he completely forgets that she will wither and die too.
Agreed, it is one of Tom's best songs, the melancholy is overpowering. It never fails to touch me. I believe he suspects there is a good chance 'she' will fall out of love with him. They have had good times together but his joy is tempered by fear that it will not last (for whatever reason), and the fear of losing his faculties as he ages. Being self-absorbed in his fears, he completely forgets that she will wither and die too.
I can't believe this song doesn't have a comment, it's one of the songs I've heard from A23 that -always- gives me the chills, every time. The final verse is just so sad. As for the meaning, I think it's fairly obvious, a man asking if his lover will have the patience and the love to stay with him even as he grows old and withers.
Agreed, it is one of Tom's best songs, the melancholy is overpowering. It never fails to touch me. I believe he suspects there is a good chance 'she' will fall out of love with him. They have had good times together but his joy is tempered by fear that it will not last (for whatever reason), and the fear of losing his faculties as he ages. Being self-absorbed in his fears, he completely forgets that she will wither and die too.
Agreed, it is one of Tom's best songs, the melancholy is overpowering. It never fails to touch me. I believe he suspects there is a good chance 'she' will fall out of love with him. They have had good times together but his joy is tempered by fear that it will not last (for whatever reason), and the fear of losing his faculties as he ages. Being self-absorbed in his fears, he completely forgets that she will wither and die too.