I absolutely love love love this song. Going back to the age thing, what awes me especially and what I find totally remarkable is that someone as young as Richard Ashcroft was when he wrote this, could produce something so evocative and relatable for someone...well I was going to say 'of my age', however this song was written thirty years ago and I'm just ten years older than him, so...I wouldn't have ben that much older at the time.
This is getting overly complicated and I need another gallon of tea before I sort it out to have it make sense. Having said that, perhaps it shows that there is surely an eternal thread that runs through us all and connects us regardless of where we happen to be on the space/time continuum.
As you might notice I'm still very much in a 'Verve' and 'Virginia Woolf' phase. There are worse places, to be fair. I will move on eventually...
