Depressing as hell. Yet it posits an honest and far reaching question about human relationships. "what's it all about Alfi, is it just for the moment we pass thought"? Alfi turns, he begins to see the damage he's done, but it remains to be seen if change is within his grasp.
Odd thing is, The song is much more effective when we don't see the performers...Sorry just an opinion.
This is a song that played peek a boo with me. It took me YEARS to track it down, I finally found it by chance around ten years ago. I'd heard most of it once and it stuck with me till I found it again. I think it worth thre effort I gave it. Having found it...I know it will never leave me. This is one of my haunted songs.There are ghosts in my life and some of them live in this song.
We truly are,for the most part, ships passing in the night, out upon an ocean to deep to ponder. Sailing low in a sky that reaches from the deep to scatter the clouds above. We see each others lights in our passing and cut each others wakes as we sail on. None can abandon their vessel, not even for a visit and the tides that brought us together soon, to soon, part us. When my ship sinks you will not be able to save me as you sail on. Yet were it not for your lights bow and stern I would know only darkness and the deep. That you too sail these seas makes of me a secret I no longer wish to keep. But we must follow our charted course, must follow the star we were given. If there are any heavens that we are to know, we will only know each other...there.
As I started this thread I can assure you that nobody said it had to be rock and roll. As Bob Dylan once said..."It's all music." I might have answered differently, but i like it as well.":O}