I doesn't really matter that I don't actually know what this song is about because I know perfectly well how it makes me feel. It's made me feel exactly the same way in 1995 when I first heard it at 13, and in the summer of 1999 when I listened to it repeatedly after the tragic death of a friend, and now when it reminds me of that friend. It always reminds me of her and how she, seemingly, disappeared from existence at the age of 18 and yet has stayed permanently in my mind at that same age. This song keeps her with me. Every time I hear it, I think of her.