How to convince you of the absolute truth of this song?

I've never studied art or art history. It's not that I haven't wanted to, it's more that art has seemed a great mystery I haven't been able to penetrate. I've been to the Louvre, the Tate Gallery, the Museum of Modern Art - not the Museum of Fine Art in Boston, although I've walked past it! - and I've tried to peer at the paintings with a knowing eye. But I've been faking it. Standing there for a long time, hand on hip, cocked head, enjoying the paintings, but essentially faking it.

But I have no doubt that if I had of had a true girlfren in the period of my life from, say, 17 - 24, I "could have looked right through the paintings, I could have looked right through them".

This song was like a Greek chorus through those years of my life - alternatively, entrancing, despairing, and, ultimately, consoling. It told me that girlssexrelationships (it WAS all tied up in my mind) were the ultimate mystery, and that if I could just have a girlfriend and fly into that mystery, then other questions and problems would either go away or be answered.

Yes, now I know life ain't like that , but then it seemed that no matter how complicated things were, the answer was so simple. So simple and so out of reach.

I promise I won't groove on the teenageboyangstthang for too long, and for sure I had lots of good times and friends, but, the lack of a girlfriend was a gaping hole in my life. It sure wasn't that I didn't want one, and there WERE a couple of girls I went out with, but I was just so shy and unsure of myself, I didn't even know how to ask a girl out. Looking back, there were times when if I'd actually acted, or talked, or even smiled, things might have happened. But I seemed always to be paralysed. I'd think back over the moment later, and berate myself, but when the situation came up again, it'd be the same - mike sitting there, knowing what he should do, and not moving.

This song captures my feelings from that period perfectly.