This song has been my favorite song since I was 17, when I first heard it.\n\nI\'m 40 now and it\'s only recently occurred to me how much depth and weight this song really has. This is not a young man\'s song.\n\nThe narrator feels the weight of his entire life bearing on him - his successes and failures, and he is looking at his chosen partner in life, and feeling glad they\'ve been by his side all this time.\n\nHe\'s made the best life he can, even if it wasn\'t the life he\'d planned or wanted when he was younger, and it\'s all the better for the presence person he\'s singing to.
This song has been my favorite song since I was 17, when I first heard it.\n\nI\'m 40 now and it\'s only recently occurred to me how much depth and weight this song really has. This is not a young man\'s song.\n\nThe narrator feels the weight of his entire life bearing on him - his successes and failures, and he is looking at his chosen partner in life, and feeling glad they\'ve been by his side all this time.\n\nHe\'s made the best life he can, even if it wasn\'t the life he\'d planned or wanted when he was younger, and it\'s all the better for the presence person he\'s singing to.