Ed's lyrics sometimes don't know what the fuck Options

[Pokey]

What I mean is the main purportrator is from 'Heaven'

"I sit with them all night
everything they say is right
but in the morning they were wrong"

Now wheather it's my feeble brain or not, I don't know but what in the hell is this supposed to mean?
In the context of the song, "them" you'd imagine would probably be his family (his wife and daughter ... seeing as only one was born at the time).
What in the world are they right about and then what happens between the time Ed went to sleep and Ed waking up that makes them wrong?
Or is it even his family he's sitting with, and if not who is it?
It just seems like a really odd thing to say in the middle of this song. I could probably come up with many sollutions as to what this means but they're all so round-a-bout and far fetched that it would make this a really, really vauge statement in a song that is otherwise really straight forward, hence it would be really out of place .. I dunno.

Also from 'Sanctity of Dreams'

"I was seventeen"

Again, so out of left field that seems to have nothing to do with anything .. I mean, so was everyone who has been 18 years old so .. what gives?