Courage, determination, and hard work are all very nice, but not so nice as an oil well in the back yard.
Age must give way to youth, no doubt. But not yet, not yet.
The lyric deals with love and sorrow, the aphorism with contradiction and deceit.
Outside books, we avoid colorful characters.
New York is full of abandoned churches. A Godless city, but full of superstitions on every subject--art, money, sex, food, health.
When courtesy fails, be nasty, brutish, and short.