I'm very good at the past. It's the present I can't understand.
The truth about autobiographical songs, he realized, was that you had to make the present become the past, somehow: you had to take a feeling or a friend or a woman and turn whatever it was into something that was over, so that you could be definitive about it. You had to put it in a glass case and look at it and think about it until it gave up its meaning.
I can see that now. I can see everything once it’s already happened — I’m very good at the past. It’s the present I can’t understand.
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