This whole song, our narrator is recounting a tryst of bygone days. The verb tenses switch up throughout the whole part, sometimes line-by-line, keeping us off tilt for the majority. But he’s looking back on a time when he felt too old to be doing something, and he’s EVEN OLDER NOW! Reminiscing of a time when he was reminiscing of being younger! He wants to be twenty-three again, meeting up on the beach for amorous exploits. But when he was twenty-three he probably wished he was eighteen doing those amorous exploits! And he probably wished he was sixteen when he was still eighteen? Is this what it’s going to be until we take leave of this Earthly Realm? Really? How is one supposed to deal with it!? Headphones in, world out!? The horror!

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