I wonder why it is I seem to have become so emotional in my old age.

I have always been a bit of a sentimental idiot, the kind who tears up when the moving denouement takes place in the movie or when the sad song touches something deep inside me.

Lately, though, it seems as if almost everything seems to strike a chord with me. The other night I was plowing through Season Three of <a title="Boston Legal" href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0402711/" target="_self">"Boston Legal"</a> when I reached an episode called <a title="Son of the Defender" href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0977321/" target="_self">"Son Of the Defender."</a> Throughout several flashbacks, there were several haunting excerpts of music, and at the end, I heard some of the lyrics to the song.

<em>"And so it goes, and so it goes, and you're the only one who knows ..."</em>

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHO6a2H-pqY

I didn't recognize the singer, but I Googled the lyrics and found that they were from a song called "And So it Goes," by Billy Joel, from 1989.

When I found the song on YouTube, I saw that there were numerous versions of it performed a capella by various groups.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGS1lo_aWww

I bought the Billy Joel version on iTunes and loaded it onto my iPod. I have found myself listening to it a number of times since then