Posted: March 23rd, 2008, 2:26pm
The song recounts the type of girls the singer had relationships with at various years in his life. When he was 17, small-town girls on the village green; 21, city girls who lived up the stair; 35, blue-blooded girls of independent means. Each of these he calls a "very good year." But he older now, and thinks of his life a "vintage wine."