I love and always loved this song. I fell in love with it since the very first seconds I heard it, when I was thirteen. Every year I listen to this album and it brings a lot of good memories and good moods.
This is the song for that bittersweet feeling you get when remembering your childhood. It’s good times, it’s bad times, and mostly it’s lonely times. Not even just the memory itself, but fully processing that you’re getting older and even that one day no one will remember who you were, and you may have lived your life without anyone truly understanding who you were as a person. It’s a really nice song...
Something incredible about this cover is that Vince arranged it ingeniously, building the music in the negative space around the original melody, so that when you sing the song original and straight, Vince turns you into a jazz musician by echoing and shifting chord voicings around the original melody in fascinating ways. A true genius, this man