I love the way he paints a picture with the words.
The production is fantastic.
I do a 12 string acoustic version at jam nights. Obviously I have to leave out the whole middle section with the solos. I do a short interlude, but with just me on guitar, I can't hope to reproduce that huge, lush section. It's a fantastic arrangement.

…when they were touring the US many years ago (this must have been the late ‘90s). This was a club show, so it was fairly intimate. A couple band members occasionally jumped down off the stage to play in the audience space. They were able to pull off most of the complex arrangements except for the really big orchestrations (e.g. live strings on the recordings). These days it would be a trivial matter, assuming the drummer was OK playing to a click track for those songs.

I used some awfully lush string ensemble sounds when I played. One person doing violins, the other doing cellos would, in this digital age, create an awesome string section.
And, no click track needed! *

* - We did one song with automated music. But, other than swells & flourishes, none of us played anything live until half-way through the song. Then I turned off the sequence. No click track was needed then either. Half the song programmed, the other half live.

she comes out of the sun in a silk dress running like a watercolor in the rain