Three Swans and Then One
One of Margaret de Pickford’s shields in Selby Abbey. LISTEN NOW · 4:36 When do you know that you’re seeing someone for the last time? Not because they’ve died or you’ve died, but because your friendship simply dissolves. Nothing explains it. You simply don’t hear from them for a long while and then the long while becomes so long that you find you’ve probably lost the chance to ask any questions. You’ve simply lost touch. Is it for good? You don’t know. What did you do wrong? Anything? It’s too late to discover. This is a song about parting and not knowing it was a last parting. Not knowing if it was a last parting. The old me would have gotten to the bottom of this before now – this un-friendship mystery. But the me of today looks back on other friendships that seemed so sturdy and then one day fell apart. It wasn’t dramatic, necessarily. No big fight or misunderstanding. Just a realization on my part or theirs that it was all over. Why? I truly never knew. In one case, I d...
