Hey there, in my mind (female) intimacy is a many-layred concept to women, but a simple thing often equating to physical contact to men.
To me, it is a culmination of shared knowledge, respect and comfortable physical contact. It seems to me that men see it as just that physical contact.
This is just my perspective, maybe others will enlighten you further?
It was at number 1 for four weeks too! I prefer Elanor Rigby myself, the version done by Godhead. But I fully appreciate the original too.
Supplement from 08/18/2006 06:25pm:
My apologies for the inaccurate spelling of "Eleanor" in this case, there was a girl in my class at school who was spelled "Elanor" and I guess it stuck!