It's really difficult to decipher this song but the most striking thing he says has always been the last line for me. "You counted 74 swans and I was 75." Given the fact that swans mate for life its like he's talking to a woman that he's in love with but we find out at the end that she's with somebody else and that he's on his own. Really beautiful, kinda like the "Wild swans at Coole" by Yeats
It's really difficult to decipher this song but the most striking thing he says has always been the last line for me. "You counted 74 swans and I was 75." Given the fact that swans mate for life its like he's talking to a woman that he's in love with but we find out at the end that she's with somebody else and that he's on his own. Really beautiful, kinda like the "Wild swans at Coole" by Yeats