What is the meaning of the song '74-'75 by The Connells?

Answer 1

Written in 1992, it's a song about a woman who tracks down her long-ago lover with whom she had a relationship in 1974 and '75. The song is the man's response to her having come back to see him after so many years have elapsed- he suspects that she may want to re-start their love affair, but he remembers that it was he who broke off the relationship, causing her extreme emotional trauma and pain from which she has never really recovered (i.e. "I was your sorry ever after" is the line that refers to this).

He is embarrassed and guilt-ridden over the damage he has done her, and knows that if they were to try and re-start their affair it wouldn't work, and he'd only end up hurting her again. This makes him defensive towards her, so he sings that she has no reason to have tracked him down again after 17 years. It's really a statement of hopelessness, that their involvement together is all over for good and nothing could make it re-flower.