Let me just pull this thread into 2012. It deserves it.
I posted here before, on 17 Feb 07 to be precise, when I wrote I was 33. I'm 38 now, and I've fathered two kids since... "The Owl" is one of the few track in my iTunes library that has the "Lyrics" field completed, and the only track where it doesn't contain the lyrics, but a summary of this page. I watched the video on Youtube again today and I still love it...