I think the main point of the song is that if you live too hard you either die young or end up broken down and used up like the homeless man the narrator is smoking with.
"When I was your age I did it all,
more than many men could do
now my possessions are the ones I wear
on my back,
and this lighter I keep in my shoe "
I think the main point of the song is that if you live too hard you either die young or end up broken down and used up like the homeless man the narrator is smoking with.
"When I was your age I did it all, more than many men could do now my possessions are the ones I wear on my back, and this lighter I keep in my shoe "