Wow, I hear that song much less literally than the other comments here.
I think she caught the eyes of a priest in an airport. They looked at each other for few seconds, and she felt like his eyes were speaking to her. The song is a description of what his eyes said to her.
He was sharing the pain in his life, but how that pain nourished him. She was very different from him, but was spiritually drawn to aspects of how he lived his life. She felt seen by him ("he saw me young he saw me old") but didn't know how much of what she saw in him to embrace for herself, spiritually.
Wow, I hear that song much less literally than the other comments here.
I think she caught the eyes of a priest in an airport. They looked at each other for few seconds, and she felt like his eyes were speaking to her. The song is a description of what his eyes said to her.
He was sharing the pain in his life, but how that pain nourished him. She was very different from him, but was spiritually drawn to aspects of how he lived his life. She felt seen by him ("he saw me young he saw me old") but didn't know how much of what she saw in him to embrace for herself, spiritually.