I have a feeling it is nothing more than a song expressing the hopelessness of an old drunk. looking back on how he lived and did many grand things in his time but at the end of his life what does he have but wine and memories? it is fatalistic in the sense that the singer has come to the end of his rope and sees nothing but his death through the bottom of a wine glass. he has naught else to live for because he is too old to live as he did. its just about nostalgia and retrospection and romanticism. like an old drunken bard singing in a pub
I have a feeling it is nothing more than a song expressing the hopelessness of an old drunk. looking back on how he lived and did many grand things in his time but at the end of his life what does he have but wine and memories? it is fatalistic in the sense that the singer has come to the end of his rope and sees nothing but his death through the bottom of a wine glass. he has naught else to live for because he is too old to live as he did. its just about nostalgia and retrospection and romanticism. like an old drunken bard singing in a pub
tragic but beautifully written and composed