Call me old-fashioned, but I have always thought this song was written by a married man whose wife had left him for high life. Here's why:
"Here WE are in a room full of STRANGERS." -- They are a couple whose intimacy excludes all others.
He was so busy as a musician singing love songs on Broadway that he neglected his relationship with her.
"Now in MY place..." He used to be the only one, the husband. Now, she's sleeping with anybody and everybody.
"Even if it takes a lifetime..." -- Denotes marriage vows for life.
"Somehow I feel inside you never, ever left my side. Make it like it was before." -- Being by his side sounds like marriage, and he is calling her back to their marriage relationship as husband and wife.
@OldieButGoodie ~ right on, but even more mystical and biblical...the Broadway is the place where there is marrying and giving in marriage, so he stands at the narrow place of the gate where only two can pass simeltaneous and lawful, even if it takes forever because he has outgrown and overcome the corruptive cleverness of the world and his heart can only obey lawfully so that thew twain may experience the living resurrection exactly as jesus said, face to face as angels recognized as the word made flesh by name at their wedding in heaven before the assembly of...
@OldieButGoodie ~ right on, but even more mystical and biblical...the Broadway is the place where there is marrying and giving in marriage, so he stands at the narrow place of the gate where only two can pass simeltaneous and lawful, even if it takes forever because he has outgrown and overcome the corruptive cleverness of the world and his heart can only obey lawfully so that thew twain may experience the living resurrection exactly as jesus said, face to face as angels recognized as the word made flesh by name at their wedding in heaven before the assembly of the congregation of celebrating saints!!!
Call me old-fashioned, but I have always thought this song was written by a married man whose wife had left him for high life. Here's why:
"Here WE are in a room full of STRANGERS." -- They are a couple whose intimacy excludes all others.
He was so busy as a musician singing love songs on Broadway that he neglected his relationship with her.
"Now in MY place..." He used to be the only one, the husband. Now, she's sleeping with anybody and everybody.
"Even if it takes a lifetime..." -- Denotes marriage vows for life.
"Somehow I feel inside you never, ever left my side. Make it like it was before." -- Being by his side sounds like marriage, and he is calling her back to their marriage relationship as husband and wife.
Just thinking.
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@OldieButGoodie ~ right on, but even more mystical and biblical...the Broadway is the place where there is marrying and giving in marriage, so he stands at the narrow place of the gate where only two can pass simeltaneous and lawful, even if it takes forever because he has outgrown and overcome the corruptive cleverness of the world and his heart can only obey lawfully so that thew twain may experience the living resurrection exactly as jesus said, face to face as angels recognized as the word made flesh by name at their wedding in heaven before the assembly of...
@OldieButGoodie ~ right on, but even more mystical and biblical...the Broadway is the place where there is marrying and giving in marriage, so he stands at the narrow place of the gate where only two can pass simeltaneous and lawful, even if it takes forever because he has outgrown and overcome the corruptive cleverness of the world and his heart can only obey lawfully so that thew twain may experience the living resurrection exactly as jesus said, face to face as angels recognized as the word made flesh by name at their wedding in heaven before the assembly of the congregation of celebrating saints!!!