When I wrote the song in the 90s it was really just the lyrics and those rolling chords and chorus. The coda was always part of it as it catalyses all the yearning in the words and the eventual meaning of the song. It could be strummed out on acoustic like any folk song and people always got it – I felt it was one of the best things I’d written.
I was re…
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