This song is a perfect example of how the same lyrics and music can mean different things at different times of your life. When it first came out in 1981? I was 22 and at a crossroads in my life. From the first time I heard it it touched my emotions in a way that nothing had before. The first line and the way it is sung was enough to send me into a place I hadn’t been before. A place that I knew would come when I’d grown up. That place of resignation and acceptance of the endings in relationships without the anger and confusion. The next 40 years has past and again at a crossroads, A long term love relationship ending. The song came back by chance and gave me that reminder. You can try and explain things, work things out, who, what, why but in matters of love they are meaningless musings and can never be understood by anyone else except the hurt child within. Love this song and although it fills me with the joy and the pain of love, it never leaves me empty.
@davidl59 This song just popped up again last night and I instantly had to hear it again. Although hearing it as a late teen, parts of the lyrics resonating with me I never took the time to explore its meaning although the feeling of melancholy was experienced, maybe a hidden message of my life?
I like your description and what it has meant to you, I think it could be a mirror to mine? This song is definitely going to that "special" list for when I'm alone and reflecting
@davidl59 This song just popped up again last night and I instantly had to hear it again. Although hearing it as a late teen, parts of the lyrics resonating with me I never took the time to explore its meaning although the feeling of melancholy was experienced, maybe a hidden message of my life?
I like your description and what it has meant to you, I think it could be a mirror to mine? This song is definitely going to that "special" list for when I'm alone and reflecting
This song is a perfect example of how the same lyrics and music can mean different things at different times of your life. When it first came out in 1981? I was 22 and at a crossroads in my life. From the first time I heard it it touched my emotions in a way that nothing had before. The first line and the way it is sung was enough to send me into a place I hadn’t been before. A place that I knew would come when I’d grown up. That place of resignation and acceptance of the endings in relationships without the anger and confusion. The next 40 years has past and again at a crossroads, A long term love relationship ending. The song came back by chance and gave me that reminder. You can try and explain things, work things out, who, what, why but in matters of love they are meaningless musings and can never be understood by anyone else except the hurt child within. Love this song and although it fills me with the joy and the pain of love, it never leaves me empty.
@davidl59 This song just popped up again last night and I instantly had to hear it again. Although hearing it as a late teen, parts of the lyrics resonating with me I never took the time to explore its meaning although the feeling of melancholy was experienced, maybe a hidden message of my life? I like your description and what it has meant to you, I think it could be a mirror to mine? This song is definitely going to that "special" list for when I'm alone and reflecting
@davidl59 This song just popped up again last night and I instantly had to hear it again. Although hearing it as a late teen, parts of the lyrics resonating with me I never took the time to explore its meaning although the feeling of melancholy was experienced, maybe a hidden message of my life? I like your description and what it has meant to you, I think it could be a mirror to mine? This song is definitely going to that "special" list for when I'm alone and reflecting