as you get older it's almost like the time in the final section of this exquisite song evolves from the simple future tense into the conditional perfect and turns even more heartbreaking. people over a certain age shouldn't listen to this song. it's more dangerous than cigarettes or booze.
what we hear listening to it at 20: i know someday you'll have a beautiful life, i know you'll be a star in somebody else's sky, but why, why why can't it be, oh, can't it be mine?
what we hear listening to it at 40: i knew someday you would have had a beautiful life, i knew you would have been a star in somebody else's sky, but why, why why couldn't it have been, oh, couldn't it have been mine?
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