Lyrics
Fourteen today and you went dancing
Turning fourteen and enjoying a night of dancing.
Music mixed with laughter
Describing the atmosphere with a mix of music and laughter.
And boys can be so insecure
Reflecting on the insecurity of boys in relationships.
They made you drink a bit too much
Others pressured you to drink excessively.
Everything's a blur of feel and touch
Resulting in a blurred experience of sensations.
Did he really like you
Questioning if someone genuinely liked you.
How can you be sure enough
Expressing uncertainty about the sincerity of feelings.
Twenty-three today and all your friends are getting married
Now at twenty-three, friends are getting married, and you observe their fear of loneliness.
You say they're so scared of being alone
Critiquing others for their fear of being alone.
So self righteously you march though teachers college
Moving through teachers college with a sense of righteousness.
Still so much in life you gotta get to know
Emphasizing the need to explore and understand more about life.
Seems like everybody's so content to move so slow
Noting a general contentment with slow progress in life.
And when you think you've got your life so well controlled
Life seems well controlled, but it slips away.
It slips away
Highlighting the fleeting nature of control over life.
And the years like raindrops falling from your life are
Comparing years to raindrops, washed away from life.
Washed away
Symbolizing the passage of time.
You're so brilliant, you're so gifted, so sensitive, so strong
Praising the person for being brilliant, gifted, sensitive, and strong.
As you hide behind your barricade of words
Describing the person hiding behind a barricade of words.
But no one got close enough to you to have ever heard
Emphasizing the lack of intimacy, as no one has truly heard them.
I met you at a party you were drunk and full of world advice
Encountering someone at a party who is intoxicated and offering advice.
And I was getting nervous
Feeling nervous in the presence of this person.
You said you had a child who was a genius and you smiled
Learning about their genius child and witnessing a chaotic transformation.
As the living room transformed into your circus
Describing the living room as a circus.
Someone whispered you were thierty-nine today a face so you
Discovering the person is thirty-nine, with a weathered appearance.
Eyes so old
Noting the aged look in their eyes.
You collapsed into the corner
Observing them collapse into a corner.
Like somebody of raw nerves you near seduced me
Feeling a raw, nerve-wracking connection as they nearly seduce you with words.
With your verbs
Being intrigued by their use of verbs.
As I reached out for you
Reaching out to them.
You said over and over
Hearing repeated phrases expressing uncertainty.
Children come home from school
Children returning home, full of life, laughter, and energy.
Shout and laugh with all their life
Suggesting to shut out memories before dwelling on the past.
Shut em out fast before you think of the past
Encouraging the shutting out of past experiences.
Turn out all your lights
Telling to turn out lights and go to bed, avoiding reflection.
Go to bed got to sleep don't think don't feel
Advising not to think or feel, as nighttime symbolizes a prayer.
As the night time moans a prayer
Describing the night as moaning a prayer.
That maybe somewhere deep inside
Expressing a hope that deep inside, there is a meaningful revelation waiting to be shared.
There's some meaning aching to be shared
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