Musically this song has such a deep autumnal tonality that is odd that the song takes place in the summer, although with the “80 days reference”, we could be placing the narrator sonewhere around late August.\n\nMaybe the lyric is about being down that the long days are retreating into the jaws of an impatient autumn waiting in line to destroy the narrator’s will?\n\nSo the narrator resolves this dilemma by leaning on one particular close friend to help lesson the down mood.
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Musically this song has such a deep autumnal tonality that is odd that the song takes place in the summer, although with the “80 days reference”, we could be placing the narrator sonewhere around late August.\n\nMaybe the lyric is about being down that the long days are retreating into the jaws of an impatient autumn waiting in line to destroy the narrator’s will?\n\nSo the narrator resolves this dilemma by leaning on one particular close friend to help lesson the down mood.