[Oh, Linda]

The notion of recurring themes has been brought up more than once on corfid, and as I read this post I thought about the interesting parallels between The Watchman's Gone and A Lesson In Love.

In The Watchman's Gone, Gordon sings about following the golden sun in . . .

the past tense..."we too have followed the golden sun"
the present tense..."as I leave you in the sunset"
and future tense..."if you live to follow the golden sun"

. . . combined with the plausability of eternity, or having passed on..."if you find me feeding daisies."

Compare that with A Lesson In Love, in which we find a striking familiarity with the lyrics "we will meet you in streets of gold, where eternity begins."

What's interesting is that both songs also include references to the moon . . . where A Lesson In Love could almost be a subplot of The Watchman's Gone.

The Watchman's Gone..."and leave me be, watching the moon roll by"

and

A Lesson in Love..."you look like the moonglow that follows me home," where the moonglow is in and of itself a kind of watchman.

What to make of all of this? In The Hour interview Gordon did with George Stroumboulopoulis, George tells Gordon "you're closer to the end than you are to the beginning. Are you good with aging?" To which Gordon replies "it doesn't bother me at all" and then he makes reference to being out cold in the hospital with "no worries, no cares."

So perhaps the lyrics above reflect accepting fully the fact that at some point in time we all will pass. But during the time that we do have, live your best life, for you. Said more simply, you never know when your time is up, so make the very best of it while you have it.