This is one of the most beautiful songs ever. Unfortunately, I am more familiar than I would ever have wanted to be with the feelings expressed. There are two kinds of beauty-everyday beauty and a transcendent, sublime beauty that seems to almost lead beyond this world to somewhere else. The poetic way this song is worded creates the second type of beauty. It haunts and echoes. The intense contrast between the bliss of completion and the loneliness of love lost conjures up the feeling of looking into the infinite void an abyss. The high passion and ecstasy of being in love has made everything else seem trivial and meaningless by comparison. Adam, your magnificent voice and the power of your delivery do justice to this beautiful song. Of course, the more shallow among us would see this in the following way: the sufferer's better judgement was overwhelmed by his/her lust which resulted in premature sex. Now this individual would prefer to think of himself or herself as a victim rather than as a slut. I, personally, prefer the more romantic, elegant view.