The main point of the song is that time passes. You're young and you feel invincible, but if you mess up, you will never have that perfect life again, which was anyway eventually going to end. But you can remarry, but you will always be less than you could have been, because not only part of your wages but part of your life was spent building a different family, and you have ruined your children's one first family.
I love that the lover herself comes to personify time the avenger. You know you will only be seeing her so many times, but she will go on.
Compare to Bowie's "Time" written quite soon after he became a success, but he has lost someone probably to suicide and he can't believe he can't go back, yet he knows he should have known about time.
Compare to Bowie's "Time" written quite soon after he became a success, but he has lost someone probably to suicide and he can't believe he can't go back, yet he knows he should have known about time.
The main point of the song is that time passes. You're young and you feel invincible, but if you mess up, you will never have that perfect life again, which was anyway eventually going to end. But you can remarry, but you will always be less than you could have been, because not only part of your wages but part of your life was spent building a different family, and you have ruined your children's one first family.
I love that the lover herself comes to personify time the avenger. You know you will only be seeing her so many times, but she will go on.
Compare to Bowie's "Time" written quite soon after he became a success, but he has lost someone probably to suicide and he can't believe he can't go back, yet he knows he should have known about time.
Compare to Bowie's "Time" written quite soon after he became a success, but he has lost someone probably to suicide and he can't believe he can't go back, yet he knows he should have known about time.