"A whole long lifetime, could've beent he end"--such a beautiful lyric that describes a typical man's fear of commitment to one person. A whole long lifetime is frightening because that mean's you have to invest yourself into one person over a long period of time.
And while that's admirable and should be the standard in love, the downside is that when you lose that person or that person loses you, the years of invested time to that commitment pretty much destroys the being of the other after they've lost that person.
Now that may not be true, but the fear of how that would feel like is what a lot of men feel when they ponder a lifetime commitment with someone.
Being with one person until the end is probably the manliest thing a man could do. Not many men have that virtue. I think Nick Drake (or the voice he created in the lyric) is really questioning his worth if he cannot be with someone until the end given that it can be inferred that he (the voice in the lyric) is no longer with that person.
"A whole long lifetime, could've beent he end"--such a beautiful lyric that describes a typical man's fear of commitment to one person. A whole long lifetime is frightening because that mean's you have to invest yourself into one person over a long period of time.
And while that's admirable and should be the standard in love, the downside is that when you lose that person or that person loses you, the years of invested time to that commitment pretty much destroys the being of the other after they've lost that person.
Now that may not be true, but the fear of how that would feel like is what a lot of men feel when they ponder a lifetime commitment with someone.
Being with one person until the end is probably the manliest thing a man could do. Not many men have that virtue. I think Nick Drake (or the voice he created in the lyric) is really questioning his worth if he cannot be with someone until the end given that it can be inferred that he (the voice in the lyric) is no longer with that person.