For me, he's England's greatest songwriter of his generation. No one comes close to him. He makes his points clear and direct, consistently album after album. Lyrically just poetic, observational, storytelling. His songs are part of a huge novel he has written about Life. Life as he's seen it lived, lived it himself. They're all just sentences from a larger paragraph. Fragments of his creative beauty.
Time goes on as we get older and watch as our lives start slipping away. The flood of emotions that come over you as you do think of past loves, heartbreak and the lose of those you love. Will anyone remember us? What a great song.
"But lately I've been going to All the places that we once knew, And just when I think that I am free of you I keep seeing the things that remind me of you....."