What though youth gave love and roses Age still leaves us friends and wine.

I try to write lyrics so that they won't age which sort of leaves you with the big subjects like death and love and sex and violence.

What I really tried to do with Helen was make her show this sad side of her. She was married off at 16 was so young and living in this castle that can't leave because of how she looks and married to a man she hates and three times her age.

As winter strips the leaves from around us so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.

The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away than what it leaves behind.