Lyric discussion by twister 

this song totally kicks ass, I love Aerosmith

I have been listening to this song for the last twenty years and I think it's about a very intense and devastating relationship that might have ended in death. She is the past that at one time was so heart breaking that it made him age prematurely. Yet with the passage of time, the devastation has subsided, hence the lines have cleared; but she still remains in a haunting and lingering way. His story is unique to him, but an old love story to anyone else. It's been written about by the lame as well as the wise. Everyone knows how...

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