A lovely but deeply melancholy song. The narrator would seem to be a Dad with no Mum evident in the song. She has left him or died, not clear, and he gets through the days cajoling his 2 kids, visiting relatives, having breakfast, playing football, all the time wondering how to start again without her. In most stories the moral if there is one is at the end, in this story the moral is there is no end, just beginnning, again and again.
I find the line "Turn the landing light off, no wait, leave it on
It might make the night that much easier to be gone" very poignant, seeing him sitting alone when the kids are in bed, thinking.
A lovely but deeply melancholy song. The narrator would seem to be a Dad with no Mum evident in the song. She has left him or died, not clear, and he gets through the days cajoling his 2 kids, visiting relatives, having breakfast, playing football, all the time wondering how to start again without her. In most stories the moral if there is one is at the end, in this story the moral is there is no end, just beginnning, again and again.
I find the line "Turn the landing light off, no wait, leave it on It might make the night that much easier to be gone" very poignant, seeing him sitting alone when the kids are in bed, thinking.