I agree with tenace...this is an amazing song that I have loved for years, and I can't begin to capture all that it means to me in a comment. I feel Warren may have been wistfully reflecting on a life, his midlife most likely, with all its joy and pain. To me the song evokes a moment locked in the mind's eye...maybe he had a picture or memory from his wedding showing "the couple" with their obvious backs turned, hand in hand, laughing, with that synchronicity and solidarity you can only have with a mate. The song begins and ends in the singular, with the "we" in the middle. We come into the world alone and leave it that way. I'm left to reflect that life is a blur of bittersweet, mostly sweet. Warren made so many things sweet.
I agree with tenace...this is an amazing song that I have loved for years, and I can't begin to capture all that it means to me in a comment. I feel Warren may have been wistfully reflecting on a life, his midlife most likely, with all its joy and pain. To me the song evokes a moment locked in the mind's eye...maybe he had a picture or memory from his wedding showing "the couple" with their obvious backs turned, hand in hand, laughing, with that synchronicity and solidarity you can only have with a mate. The song begins and ends in the singular, with the "we" in the middle. We come into the world alone and leave it that way. I'm left to reflect that life is a blur of bittersweet, mostly sweet. Warren made so many things sweet.