I'm in my early 60s and all my life I've heard the Bing Crosby-era song, "I'll Be Seeing You."
I'll be seeing you
In all the old familiar places
...the small cafe, the park across the way.
I heard it this weekend on the FM while driving on a jazz station in LA, KJAZZ, KKJZ, and I suddenly heard it differently. After "the cafe" and "the park across the way" we start hearing that the singer will see the missing person in the moon, and, in the morning sunrise, etc.
Suddenly, the only explanation was that the person being sung to, was dead.
I've read about the song (biggest article here), and during WW2 it was supposed to trigger the idea that the wife was at home, the soldier in Europe, but they were both looking at the same moon overhead, for example.
But once the idea got in my head, the only way the lyrics made sense as a whole seemed to be if the singer was talking about a dead person who sort of haunts the sunset, the moon, a flower in the garden, and so on.
Eeeek.
Add the tidbit, the songwriter himself died shortly after writing it.
https://thisislowermerion.com/ill-be-seeing-you-a-hugely-popular-wwii-era-song-about-distance-love-couldnt-be-more-timely-today/
