You know it's funny RWB, there are so many really, really great Songs that generations of people are unaware of, and you're right, this is one of those songs, one of those albums. Most people live in their own moment and it's unusual when you find somebody that lives life across time. It's not the way we were designed, I'd imagine. Although, sometimes you find people like that and sometimes, you watch the reactions of society. We are conditioned to get up, do our job, face our responsibilities and provide for our families. After a certain point, most of us lose sight of the abstract or the creative and get focused on the existential. That's kinda what this song is about to me. When you are young and full of hope, you feel like time is there and you have plenty of it. As you get older, you come to the realization that time is fleeting and it really is shorter every day. Young people don't normally realize the passage of time until it's too late and they don't value it until too much of it has passed. Older people resent the waste of it because they realize that it really is precious. You see older people try to explain this to the younger but they young don't listen and why should they? They have plenty of time right? The best part about being young is the enthusiasm and the confidence. When you are young, you tell yourself that you are smarter, you are stronger, you will not make the same mistakes, all the while, you are making the greatest mistake of all. You are repeating it over and over, following in the footsteps of your Forefathers. As an older person, it's maddening. You try to explain it, you try to make people understand, your experience allows you to see the mistake while it's happening and yet, there is nothing you can do. The young will not listen and the old do not have the capability to bridge the gap.
I sometimes think it's God's little way of creating amusement.
LOL.....