You're talking 45 turns just as fast as you can

The above post title comes from the song that is the main point of the blog and is a representation of one of the main themes of the song growing old. As stated in a earlier post, the narrator may be an aging rockstar and that lyric may refer to the narrators age. The turns represent the revolutions of the earth, so forty five turns means the narrator is forty five years old.

"And with a face like a dad and a laughable stand
You can sleep on the plane or review what you said
When you're drunk and the kids leave impossible tasks
You think over and over, "hey, I'm finally dead.""

The first line talks about the narrator feeling old, thinking that he looks like a father. Where is the first part of the song is told from a first person perspective, here the song switches to a third person perspective. Being a rockstar is young mans game and an aging rockstar is an almost ironic thing. He feels as Danny Glover so finely put it "too old for this shit". He feels so old, he thinks to himself that he is "finally dead".

"Oh, if the trip and the plan come apart in your hand
Tou look contorted on yourself your ridiculous prop
You forgot what you meant when you read what you said
And you always knew you were tired, but then
Where are your friends tonight?"

These lines tell about the narrator pretty much losing his confidence and falling to his rerets. He feels ridoculous on stage and is reading his lyrics off a telepromter forgetting what they even represented when he first wrote them. He is feeling tired and old and just wants to know where all of his friends are. What happened to all of his meaningful relationships.